Re: Can we send an INCLUDE command to a running instance of SwiftForth from an external editor?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick VanNorman" <rvn_at_forth.com>
To: <sftalk_at_forth.com>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: [sftalk] Re: Can we send an INCLUDE command to a running instance
of SwiftForth from an external editor?

> SwiftForth can be controlled by any application that can post windows
> messages. Not all editors can.

> SwiftForth can also be extended to accept commands composed in any way you
> can conceive. That is the nature of Forth.
>
> The answer is more dependent on your editor than on SwiftForth.

Thanks for the swift answer. Fair enough.
Let me rephrase the question:

Given a running instance of a basic SwiftForth, thus not yet extended in any
way, what is the easiest path to sending it a request to INCLUDE "some file
path"? I know a thing or two about how to send HWND messages to another app.
As it happens, there aren't that many with which you can pass any sort of
data... I have double checked the otherwise excellent SwiftForth.pdf
documentation and other than a chapter on DDE (which could be a solution) I
have found nothing about possible HWND messages it is allready "listening"
to in it's QUIT loop that will let me invoke it's INCLUDE word.
I suspect you are going to tell me that I will first have to extend
SwiftForth - which is perfectly ok. Sorry about the noise in that case. I am
simply trying to figure out if something readily accessible is already part
of the basic system.
Regards,
Conrad Weyns.

>
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:28:52 +0200, Conrad Weyns <weyns_at_online.no> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > can we send an INCLUDE command to a running instance of SwiftForth from
> > an
> > external editor?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Conrad Weyns
>
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