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

[Mark Bailey]

Hi Laurent:

This should be great and changing my app/lua script trivial.

Thanks for the prompt response and great customer service!

73,

Mark, KD4D

On February 6, 2023 7:31:37 AM EST, Laurent HAAS - F6FVY <f6fvy at free.fr> wrote:
>Hi Mark
>
>Le 06/02/2023 à 01:00, Mark Bailey a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>
>The third parameter of the UDP frames is the name of the destination (set with strStation in the API). You can use whatever name (which is not already used by the legit Win-Test instances), and match it in your app. These frames will be ignored by the other Win-Test instances, because it won't match their own name.
>
>> Is it easy to pretend to be a Win-Test instance?
>
>You don't need to, if you only want to receive data from other station(s). You don't need either if you want to send back text commands or gabs.
>
>BTW, if you can't use text commands, I can probably extend the wtGab:Send API and add an optional parameter to not log the sent gab. This way, the gab wnd won't be messed up. Just tell me.
>
>73
>
>Larry - F6FVY
>
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