Communication between the OS and NWNX

[maxpawkas]

It's my first post - I had no need to write here earlier - so hello everyone!

I'd like to ask about any possibility to communicate with nwnx from the OS level.
What I wanna do, is to create an external application to perform nwnx actions, like at least shutting the server down, but also kicking players, sending server messages and so on.
I know I could simply kill nwn-sever app, so that nwnx would create a new one, but i doesn't do the trick for obvious reasons.
Also - setting a h-beat script and looking for a binary variable of a particular state in database seems tricky, but I don't like the idea.

It would be also lovely if I was able to externaly fire nwn scripts inside the module.

Is there any way to do it? Can I do stuff inside the module from the outside (basicly, from the OS level)?

We're running nwnx on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Thanks in advance

[virusman]

Yes, you can do that, but you'd have to write all that yourself: there is no API available for remote/async calls. Create a new thread to process incoming messages and put them into a shared queue, then hook the main loop and check (in a thread-safe way) for new messages in the queue and process that.
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