Re: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-06-04 Thread Matt Genovese
(formerly from Owego, NY though - your neck of the woods, Drew) -- Andrew J. Dolgert wrote: Re: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX Hi Matt, I like your approach and Mike's suggestions. His way of embedding OpenDX sounds very nice. As to whether you can use the Image viewer

Re: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-06-03 Thread Matt Genovese
Drew Mike, Thanks very much for the insight. I am admittedly new to OpenDX, and appreciate your guidance. I am currently taking your advice and ascribing to the strategy of sending my raw data (via a TCP/IP socket) to an OpenDX module that translates the data into DX Objects (Fields,

RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Zeleznik
Matt wrote: there is an import via socket module available in the VPE; have you had any experience with this? I have not used it. As Mike mentioned, I observed in the call_module DX samples where it appears the VPE data flow graphs are essentially coded into C: a program-schematic of the

RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew J. Dolgert
Title: Re: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX Hi Matt, I like your approach and Mike's suggestions. His way of embedding OpenDX sounds very nice. As to whether you can use the Image viewer from C calls, I'm not sure, either, because I've never tried running a network through C calls

RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-05-31 Thread Andrew J. Dolgert
Hi Matt, You can set variables in a running copy of DX using DXLink, but you are correct that you send them as text. There are helper routines in one of the libraries that let you write a loadable module and external program which talk with each other over sockets. These routines are commented

RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-05-31 Thread Michael Zeleznik
, May 31, 2005 10:07 AM To: opendx2-users@lists.berlios.de Subject: RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX Hi Matt, You can set variables in a running copy of DX using DXLink, but you are correct that you send them as text. There are helper routines in one of the libraries that let

RE: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-05-31 Thread Michael Zeleznik
I wrote: ... all of the DX functionality IS available through the library routines... That is, except for the VPE, data flow, and interactors. But the idea is that you don't need or want the data flow when doing this, since you then have much better control over everything. And in general, one

Re: [opendx-users] Usage model for OpenDX

2005-05-30 Thread Alan Louis Scheinine
I linked Qt with DX and it always crashed, even though I tried various ways of making sure that DX was in a thread that did not wait a long time. My solution was to connect DX with Qt using CORBA, the free OmniORB. Though it seems complicated to through into the mix yet another tool, it works.