[Gnumed-devel] callback from event loop in wxPython

[Karsten Hilbert]

Horst, Ian, others,

I haven't been able to find useful docs on how to make the
wxPython event loop call a function of mine.

I want to check for events on a <pipe | socket | ?> to enable
GnuMed to be scripted. First use of this will be to allow
third party apps to attach to a running gnumed (if --slave
specified) and lock it into a particular patient.

The general idea would be to make the event loop check for
availability of outside instructions and send out a custom
wxEvent. A gmScriptingPortal() borg would intercept those,
read the instructions from the inbound stream (pipe, socket,
etc), compile and execute them. Sanity checking would be
allowed-only by allowing outside macros to only call methods
of the scripting portal as opposed to methods of any other
gnumed object. Kind of like a DBMS with stored procedures but
without direct SQL access.

Karsten
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