Programmatically raise events in EG? (sendmessage, tcp,...)

[User]

Hi!
Is it possible to raise an event in EG from another program?
Like SENDMESSAGE or POSTMESSAGE and stuff?
The Network event receiver could work too, but i find NO documentation and dont get it to work. Beside that, it'll be easier to just respond to a sendmessage.

Or is there any other solution?

Thanks in advance!

[jonib]

Using the command line of EventGhost you can create an event in EventGhost.

But I'm not sure what you want to do maybe you can elaborate? as there are many ways to do stuff in EvenGhost.

jonib

[jinxdone]

- Run "eventghost.exe -e event payload" to trigger an event.
- Use the COM object to trigger event (example below)
- Use the network sender/receiver. It's not really that complicated, just look at the code and duplicate what it does in your own application
- Use the simpler UDP broadcast listener plugin in EG (Search the forum for the plugin)

Example vbscript that uses the COM object

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Set EG = WScript.CreateObject("EventGhost")
EG.TriggerEvent "MyEvent", "Payload"

-jinxdone

[Livin]

What about sending a command via HTTP... just using the Webserver plugin?

[jsonnabend]

What about sending a command via HTTP... just using the Webserver plugin?

I've worked up a Winamp plugin that implements a lightweight web server to remotely control winamp (I know, I'm not the first). The more I use that, the more convinced I am that http is the best way to remotely interact with programs like Eventghost. Why create a whole new protocol when the HTTP protocol is ubiquitous and well defined?

- Jeff