HMBatch as server

Altair Employee

Oct 9, 2015

Updated Oct 4, 2020 by Altair Forum User

Hi all,

I wanted to launch hypermesh as a server and my client will send various requests to the server.

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SERVER CODE : HM_Server.tcl

set LogFile [open C:/temp/tcl_out.txt w]

proc Server {channel clientaddr clientport} {

global LogFile

puts $LogFile 'Hello'

}

set chanID [socket -server Server 30000]

puts $chanID

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I'm launching the hmopengl.exe using ShellExecuteEx method.

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CLIENT CODE

//Format the command line parameter to be passed for HM in batch mode

TCHAR* cmdLineParam = TEXT('-tcl C:/HM/Tcl_Scripts/HM_Server.tcl');

//Execute the hypermesh in batch mode and wait for it to complete

HINSTANCE hInst = 0;

SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShExecInfo = {0};

ShExecInfo.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);

ShExecInfo.fMask = SEE_MASK_DEFAULT;

ShExecInfo.hwnd = GetSafeHwnd();

ShExecInfo.lpVerb = TEXT('Open');

ShExecInfo.lpFile = TEXT('C:\\Program Files\\Altair\\12.0\\hm\\bin\\win64\\hmopengl.exe');

ShExecInfo.lpParameters = cmdLineParam;

ShExecInfo.lpDirectory = NULL;

ShExecInfo.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;

ShExecInfo.hInstApp = hInst;

ShellExecuteEx(&ShExecInfo);

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The above code is working fine with hmopengl.exe

where as it is not working with hmbatch.exe [ ShExecInfo.lpFile = TEXT('C:\\Program Files\\Altair\\12.0\\hm\\bin\\win64\\hmbatch.exe') ];

I could not find the issue...

Altair RISE