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Re: Network remote control [message #46546 is a reply to message #46544]

Sun, 22 May 2016 13:27

dolik.rce
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Czech Republic

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Hi Infausto

Using Skylark and GUI together seems to become an FAQ Smile

I already tried to figure out an answer a while back, when someone else asked, see this thread from 2012. Some hints might be also in this one from 2013.

Aside from the skylark solution, there is many other more or less hacky ways to remotly control an application. You could for example use simple http server (e.g. nginx) to upload files with instructions to machine where the application runs. The application would then just monitor the location for new files and interpret the commands (using e.g. inotify, if you want to avoid polling). This would be quite a lot of a hack, but really easy to do.

Or, less hackish one: you can simply create a thread listening on specific port and pass the commands to gui thread using callbacks.

Best regards,
Honza

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