windower comunication

This might be hard to explain. Im looking to know if it is possible to have windower send information to an external application. Said application would be written in C#.

I'm thinking along the lines of an addon that can send info externally to an app thats listening to it. abit like send can send info to other instances of windower. i know there are librarys out there like fface that can read memory, but im not looking for that. 

If anyone understands what im trying to explain and can point me in the right direction id apreciate it. Im sure this can be done since theres plugins like FFochat ect that im sure comunicate with external sources, but since im not a plugin dev i want to know if its feasable via an addon.

thanks for any replies.

There are a number of hacky ways to accomplish this, but we do not provide anything like that ourselves. You'd have to hack around it using your own means. For example, you can use the chatlog to let the external application read from it. Or you could listen on a socket with your C# application and use LuaSocket to send data to localhost. But there's no one great way to accomplish that.

Sockets is probably the best way to go, but you could also do it through files.  You can easily read/write to files via Lua, which your external application could use for communication.

here is one im working on

its not complete yet

http://pastebin.com/U0b8H4mp

There's also the WindowerHelper library. you can use it to get notified of any unhandled Windower commands that get entered. Then you could do 

send_command('special_unhandled_command_name "data to send"')

However, this mechanism isn't really intended for sending large volumes of data, so if if that's what you're planning to do, a socket is probably a better approach.

LuaSocket isn't an Addon (or even Windower-specific in any way), it's a library. We just distribute a version built against LuaCore now. There's an introduction and API reference over on their website.

apreciated very much Iryoku, thank you muchly sir.