[WT-support] How do I send info from LUA script to external app?

[Mark Bailey]

Hi Larry:

Thanks for the prompt response.  My app is a standalone program.  How do I use this to send only to my App name as you suggest below?

My program is not emulating a Win-Test instance - isn't that what "strStation" is?  I'm currently just looking at the UDP traffic.

Is it easy to pretend to be a Win-Test instance?

I don't want to crash all the Win-Test instances in a large multi-multi!  :-)

Thanks and 73,

Mark

On February 5, 2023 12:18:16 PM EST, Laurent HAAS - F6FVY <f6fvy at free.fr> wrote:
>Hi Mark
>
>Le 05/02/2023 à 18:08, Mark Bailey a écrit :
>
>> I am currently using the wtGab:send API.  This works (my App monitors the UDP network traffic) but makes the Gab window almost useless since the sent Gab messages fill up the window.
>> 
>> I send to a dedicated instance of Win-Test so the received messages don't do the same.
>> 
>> Is there a better way?
>
>It depends on the kind of "info" you want to send to your external app.
>
>If it's plain text, this API is probably the best way.
>
>If it's a command or some data, you can use a text command (with no notification). If you don't fully respect the text commands syntax (uppercased and characters restricted), be sure to send it to your app name only, or it could crash the others Win-Test on the network ;-)
>
>wtApp:TextCommand(strCommand [, strStation [, nNotificationID]])
>strCommand is a WT text command.
>[1.3.0] : strStation and nNotificationID added.
>strStation is the Station name on the network to send the command to.
>Use "*" to send to all stns of the network [1.9.0]
>nNotificationID is the ID of the notification issued
>after the completion of the command (see WT_REMOTE_NOTIFY_* constants).
>
>-- Remote Notification IDs
>
>WT_REMOTE_NOTIFY_ALWAYS = 0;
>WT_REMOTE_NOTIFY_NEVER = 1;
>WT_REMOTE_NOTIFY_IF_SUCCESS = 2;
>WT_REMOTE_NOTIFY_IF_FAILURE = 3;
>
>
>73
>
>Larry - F6FVY
>
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