Yeah, but surely you could do the same thing using Python, or am
I missing something blindingly obvious?
From:
owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric
Rousseau
Sent: 29 December 2006 19:49
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: [scripting:python] external access to XSI
Well basically it's not possible to call
scripting functions from outside of XSI,
because that means calling functions across two processes, and we don't
expose a socket port for scripting.
So what that XSI 6.0 sample does is implement a server in XSI that listens
to a network socket. Then, outside of XSI you send scripting commands to
that
socket which are then executed in XSI.
This could be used for example to force an update of a plug-in while users
are running XSI.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Aldis
Interesting -and useful - example but wouldn't it have been easier to do the
same thing using only a few lines of Python or Perl code?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Blair
>
> Hi
>
> If you have XSI 6, take a look at the XSIServer example in the SDK
> example workgroup.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Smith
>
> I was curious if it was possible to run a script outside of XSI that
> could control some aspect inside XSI. The simplest thing I would like
> to do is to invoke a XSIUIToolbox.Msgbox pop up inside xsi from an
> external script using string data collected from outside of xsi.
>
> Just Curious
>
> Greg
