At 15:41 -0600 04/23/2002, Evan Adelman wrote:
>I'm in the initial phases of planning a gnarly Director project that
>has a continuous data feed. The data is being generated out of
>several "data stations" that will be fed into a C++ *.dll (which I'm
>not coding myself). Now I'm kinda stuck on the different methods I
>can use to yank the data out of that dll (or how I can give
>direction to the developer in terms of the most useful way to
>package up the information)...
The external code object should have a means to send messages to
Lingo or Director as well. I mean there's no reason for it to sit
there and be passive, hoarding data until Director asks for it. It
should be quite possible for the Xtra to send messages out to
handlers, with parameters and so on. That way your movie just sits
there on a frame, doing nothing in particular, until the Xtra sends a
message to it.
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