Hi Bill,
"Bill Schwab" <
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> Ted,
>
> > Anybody tried 'talking' to another executable from within Dolphin? I've
> > managed to talk to dll and ActiveX, but I can't find a way to 'talk' to
an
> > executable. I can start it from within Dolphin - KernelLibrary
> > (#winExec:uCmdShow:) and ShellLibrary (#shellExecute: ...) both let me
do
> > that, but I can't flush info to it nor receive info from it.
> >
> > Can anybody help please?
> >
> > Just a simple example, something like 'type c:\autoexec.bat' and then
> > receive the contents in a stream, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> There are various IPC methods. What will and won't work depends on the
app.
> Is it a COM or Automation server? If so, and if it's properly registered,
> then you can create an instance of one of it's objects and the server will
> be loaded. If it's a socket server, then you'll need to get it running
some
> other way, after which you'll connect and start sending data over sockets.
> Files work too, as you've indicated.
>
> Are you tyring to set up your own IPC, or do you have a particular app
that
> you'd like to control?
>
I'm trying to start a program, jview.exe (a Java command-line loader), with
a Java classpath, a Java class (which is to be executed), a number of
parameters required for that class and a stream of XML data. This Java class
parses and transforms the XML and returns a stream of XML.
I can run it as a batch file or in a command window, output the result to
the command window or to a file, but I need to integrate it in a Smalltalk
application.
See also my thread 'talking to Java'. I must be overlooking something,
because it shouldn't be that difficult. According to Blair it should even be
possible to talk directly to the Java class, but I can't even begin to think
how I could implement that. (I've just mastered the OLE/ActiveX
interfacing).
> Have a good one,
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>
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>
Thanks,
Ted
>
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