Sending an event that Girder can catch

[Ron]

You could try the TCP/IP plugin. Or use the commandline interface.

[mflaster]

Hi,

I'm writing a program (actually modifying some sample code) in the hopes that I can play an MPG file, and send Girder messages at various points (i.e. file is loaded, tell me to start. Clip is finished, move on to the next task.) I don't want my app to exit, and have Girder catch the exit event, because of the screen flashes.

So here's my question. Isn't there some easy thing to do from a Visual C++ windows program that Girder would notice? Send a message? Do something else? Or would I have to write a special hardware plugin to wait for a specific message from my app?

I wasn't even sure which hardware input device would be able to catch something sent by my program.

Any advice?

Mike


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[mflaster]

What do you mean by "commandline"? Running girder.exe with certain arguments? Or is it a plugin? I couldn't find documentation of either.

Mike

[oe1k]

It has been mentioned around here someplace...
Anyway, you can send events to girder like this:
girder -eventstring <event name>
where <event name> is the sting you want to send, such as:
girder -eventstring 8660CC198330
for an irman button, or make you own with text names.
(just don't send "girder -eventstring" by itself: this will run every command that isn't assigned an event string, including your shutdown event that is only supposed to be called by the confirm shutdown event.)
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