sending hardware plugin events from another program

[tobbej]

is it posibel to send event strings from another program directly to girder insted of using a plugin dll?
or must girder load a plugin dll befor it will work?

[Ron]

You can send girder-eventstrings:

girder.exe -eventstring bla

These are girder events so learn them accordingly.

[tobbej]

i was thinking of doing it more like the plugins do it, by using the shared memory segment and posting WM_SOMTING (forgot the exact name of the message) to girder, so i dont have to start a new program everytime.

[SouthyPar]

Using "girder.exe -eventstring bla" doesn't spawn a new instance of Girder every time you use it, it merely launches that event within Girder.

[Ron]

Technically you spawn a new version of Girder, but this version never opens a GUI and closes as soon as it sent the message to the main instance. But there is currently no means of sending events to Girder besides the eventstring commandline parameter or the TCP/IP plugin. Such a plugin would be trivial to make though.