Gotcha, thanks for the info!
Greg
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 14:49 -0500, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> 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
>
>
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