Guides/Tips/Examples of Program Code to work with Girder?

[mdnitehk]

Hello,

I was wondering, since I am my no means that great of a programmer, if there was any information available on how best to write a program that works with Girder.

I've been writing an application for awhile now, that is nearing completion, and I've designed it to work with Girder. All of the buttons/navigation are handled by keypresses from the keyboard which work pretty well with Girder(for the most part), but there are times when I hit a key several times before it will do anything. I've played with the delays, and it all works, but sometimes it just takes awhile to work.

Anyways, my question was: is there a preferred way that works better for Girder to communicate with other programs, and if so, where can I find some info on this?

Thanks for your help,
Jeff

[mdnitehk]

Thank you for the reply, I will play around with SendMessage and see what I can figure out.

Jeff

[vynce]

I think that windows messages are currently the best way for Girder to control other programs and receive information from them. You would generally use the SendMessage plugin in Girder and sometimes the CopyData plugin. I think most windows programs use messages to call functions when buttons are pressed in that program. So, your program most-likely already includes these messages that you could use with Girder.