Re: Wingz

mltsa!jgill@mlgtw.att.com writes: >For our application, Wingz will need to send and receive messages to and >from another process. My guess that the best way to do this would be to use >IPC messages, wrapping a process around Wingz to successfully achieve this. >Has anyone done something similar with Wingz, or suggest another or better >way, and what needs to be used in order to achieve this. >Thanks in advance for any help. You don't say which platform you'll be running Wingz. In the Unix version all external functions are in an external process, in which you can do almost anything you like. The big problem though, is that you don't control the main loop for the external process. This is not too bad if you are sending messages from Wingz to external applications. However if you want to send messages into Wingz, you have to poll the connection to see if anything new has arrived, which uses up lots of system resources and makes the Wingz spreadsheet difficult to work with. You may also want to ask your Informix sales rep about Wingz Realtime. I don't know if Informix is still selling it, but it attempts to address some of these issues. Hope this helps Tim Hunt tim@fsg.com