Windows. Situation: Using a Python program called OpenRPG. I have a program that displays form data (a character sheet) in C++. I am able in the C++ program to build a string and copy it into the clipboard, then paste it into the input in the running Python program.
I would like to somehow automate this, that is, have the python instance communicate with the C++ instance and vice versa. I'm still trying to think of a way to do this. There seems to be a number of options, but I'm not sure which one is best, or there is a better one. 1. Write a new C++ program/library with extern C that Python could call. This interface program would open up some shared memory that the C++ application would also open up, and python and C++ could communicate that way. Python writing requests to the memory, C++ responding with responses. 2. Have the C++ program interface directly into the python form, reading directly from controls. C++ could write to the input box with reponses. 3. Have Python write a small file with the request to the HD. Have the C++ program intermittedly check for the presense of this file. If it exists, it would open the file, read the request, write a response file, then delete the file Python wrote. 4. Find out if python can directly, somehow, open up shared memory and do the same as 1 without the need for the extern C interface program. 5. Something else I'm not thinking of but you know. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
