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Re: Help: Communicating between a Windows .exe program and an IDL program [message #42220 is a reply to message #42219]

Sun, 16 January 2005 23:08

Robert Barnett
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Unless you are significantly dislike windows, know nothing about COM+
and nothing about VB then you might want to avoid the use of sockets. VB
has features in it to make it accessible from other applications via the
COM+ interface. I don't know any details of how this is possible.

On the other hand, sockets are probably fine if the problem is simple.
If you're talking about TCP/IP sockets then listening on a socket is not
supported (or recommended) in IDL. Thus, you would have to rely on your
GUI to take care of listening on a port waiting for IDL to connect.

If I were to use sockets I would probably prefer to stream XML (IDL 6.1
only) down the socket. I guess that just depends upon your aptitude with
XML/DOM as well as future prospects for your project.

Asynchronous behaviour can easily be achieved if there is a single
client socket per server socket. Having multiple clients per server can
become dangerous if not thought out correctly.

I guess it is viable to use sockets. The best solution greatly depends
on the language which the GUI is written in, the API's which are
available and whether cross platform compatilibity is desirable.

Robbie

Marc Reinig wrote:

> I have a Windows program that is a GUI.
>
> 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.
>
> Would this be viable?
>
> Could I have a widget interface that would work asynchronously to
> communicate with the GUI over the socket?
>
> Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.
>
> -Marco
>
> ========================
> Marc Reinig
> UCO/Lick Observatory
> Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
>
>
>
>

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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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