[Gambas-user] External library and calling functions?

[Alexie]

Hi Benoit,

That sounds very promsing, but do you have an example of such callback
coded in Gambas? I can't really find it in the previous link for external
libraries.

Regards,
Alex


2013/11/11 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> Le 11/11/2013 07:27, Alexie a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Gambas is very capable of interfacing with external libraries, as
> > documented in:
> > http://gambasdoc.org/help/howto/extern?v3
> >
> > I got it all working fine, i can call a function inside the library and i
> > get a value back (if there is a return value in the function).
> >
> > Only I want something else now ... Within the library there is a
> > watch/notifier thread running which captures data from the serialport.
> This
> > data comes in independantly from the calls done to the library.
> >
> > Is it possible to define a hook in Gambas (or the library) that the
> library
> > can initiate calls and push information to the main Gambas application?
> > Thus without having to call a certain function to poll the data, i want
> to
> > have it pushed from the library.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alex
>
> You can use any gambas function as callback *provided that the callback
> is called in the main thread and not in another thread*.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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