TASpring sending input by stdIn

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 19 Mar 2007, 21:20

Does spring support sending commands through stdIn? If not would it be possible to implement such a function?

This would help bots to communicate with spring and send host commands like forcing and other stuff ingame.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 20 Mar 2007, 01:24

Springie already does it, look at spring.cs and talker.cs in the source.
It's using windows messages though.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 20 Mar 2007, 01:34

I think trepan was talking about implementing something like this in the next version, or maybe it was errors to stdout, I don't remember any more.

Rayden · Post by **Rayden** » 20 Mar 2007, 03:08

I know talker.cs ... but from point of java stdIn would be so much easier :)

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 20 Mar 2007, 03:27

Ahh yeah .. I remember we talked about that, you need that wrapper dll to call other dlls like user32.dll

Yeah stdin would be best.. Even sending windows messages has it's limitations - for example due to way spring works its im possible to send shift state so I cannot send capital letters or !@#$ stuff to spring.

AF · Post by AF » 20 Mar 2007, 10:28

Its also non portable

Spring RTS Engine

TASpring sending input by stdIn

TASpring sending input by stdIn