That sounds pretty cool. Anyone have experience using Maya's
commandPort in production (or something similar) and care to share any
thoughts? Seems like you could do some pretty useful things, besides
sending X rated geometry to Graham's workstation during reviews.
On 12/29/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> 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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