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Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program [message #42217 is a reply to message #42216]

Tue, 18 January 2005 06:37

KM
Messages: 29
Registered: October 2004

Junior Member

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Marc Reinig wrote:
> I have a Windows program that is a GUI.
me too.

> I have an IDL program that can do the underlying work. I would
> like to control the IDL program with the Windows GUI. My though
> would be to use sockets.
Me too. But then I ran into problems with Windows firewalls and
blocked ports, so I ended up using a different solution.

I went from sockets, to file-based poll communication, to POSIX
shared memory, to callable IDL. Each have pros and cons, and are
discussed in the External Dev Guide.

> Would this be viable?
Not if your end user has a tight security requirements.

> Could I have a widget interface that would work asynchronously to
> communicate with the GUI over the socket?
Yes.

Ken Mankoff
http://spacebit.dyndns.org/

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		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Marc Reinig on Tue, 18 January 2005 10:24
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: KM on Tue, 18 January 2005 06:40
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: KM on Tue, 18 January 2005 06:37
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 17 January 2005 01:40
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Robert Barnett on Sun, 16 January 2005 23:08
		Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program By: Robert Barnett on Wed, 19 January 2005 13:44

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