Inter-Application Communication on Windows

[Dave]

Hi,

I thought about using a file, but the problem is that database app  
has to send progress updates quite often and since it's accessing the  
disk heavily anyway (building the SQLite database from input files)  
it would slow the whole process down.

If I use sockets and an addres of 127.0.0.1:6000 could this cause a  
problem with anti-virus and firewall software?

Thanks a lot

All the Best
Dave

On 13 Feb 2008, at 18:36, FlexibleLearning at aol.com wrote:

> After going all round the houses on this one, using files is  
> exactly how  the
> Scripter's Scrapbook IAC API works, with the benefit of being a cross
> platform solution as well.
>
> /H
>
>
> Dave wrote:
>> I have an application that periodically creates  or updates an SQLite
>> database (actually there are lots of  databases (separate SQLite
>> files), but only one is worked on at a  time) and then sends the
>> results to the server. This process can  take upwards of 15  
>> minutes to
>> complete. In the meantime I want to  be able to still use the
>> application to do other things (such as  create playlists in iTunes).
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I'd use sockets, or polling for a file.   While polling a file's  
> content
> can eat some cycles, polling for the  existence of a file is pretty  
> darn
> fast.  Given the scenario you  describe, where you're not really
> expecting a result for several minutes,  you could probably get  
> away with
> polling for a file every few seconds.   Cheap, simple, reasonably  
> efficient.
>
>
>
>
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