Communicating with other applications

#1 I don't know how to do it myself, but I've heard examples of other people doing it. Someone refered to a Torque/Python interface as PyTorque. Apparently they were writing their game mostly in Python, with Python calling TorqueScript commands. I don't know how they did it, but search the forums and find out who so you can ask them.

A more common thing to do is just make a dll (in C# for example) and have Torque use the dll. That sort of thing is done all the time. It is no different doing this in Torque than in any other c++ app, so you don't need Torque specific documentation for it.

#2 Also you can use any of the other windows inter process communication stuff

like SendMessage/PostMessage to the other app is probably the most simple

#3 You can telnet into the server console on Torque and send/receive messages from there. It would be pretty simple to have an ActiveX/COM plugin that telnets in and reads/writes the appropriate information off the console. You can do some amazing things with this method.

#4 And since it's a local connection, it's comparable in speed/overhead to most IPC methods.

#5 Telnet into the server console looks like a cool solution. Can you point me to some resources/articles, which further explain on how to connect to Server Console.

How is the server console configured to listen to a client request from another application i.e. configuring the port, username, pwd etc. ? (or am I on a wrong track!)

I did find a good resource "TorqueScript based custom chat client & server (http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=5457)" but this seems to be a scripting client connecting to server. I still have to study this resource and hope it provides the required direction to start.

Thanks for the help. Any other pointers would be a life saver.

#6 Just put (without <>'s)

telnetSetParameters(<port #>, <read/write password>, <read only password>);

somewhere in your scripts (generally in the appropriate place in server/init.cs is a good place).

#7 1. Where can I find details(detailed documentation) on the Console Functions & Commands; I have searched the Online and Getting Started Documentation but without any success. (Is there a download version of documentation available?)

2. I had written the following line of code in server/init.cs, in function initServer():

telnetSetParameters(port 8000, "rwpassword", "rpassword");

- assuming that the last 2 arguments are any strings to be passed for password!

The following error is shown in the console:

>>> Advanced script error report. Line 121
>>> Some error context, with ## on sides of error halt:
telnetSetParameters(port 8000, ## ##"rwpassword", "rpassword");

#8 Remove the word "port" from the first parameter.

There is a relatively recent resource that is a windows help file (.chm) auto-generated from the script files themselves.

#9 Try

telnetSetParameters(8000, "rwpassword", "rpassword");

#10 Thanks people! you are life saver. might disturb you with some more questions on Telnet :-)