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I have an idea for something in SCAR. (Not related to RS.) It would involve some external stuff. I am wondering if there is a way to call an external program from within SCAR, or something similar, that will allow me to use another language to write the computational code for this. Thanks!

Local ports for communicating like KYAB did. I think SCAR might have a procedure that will run an external program try using the manual F1. If not write a plugin for that part

You can go as far as using external dynamic link-libraries (DLLs) in SCAR, as far as I know.

Use the ShellApi import in delphi and build wrappers for all the functions in it, then export them for scar.

If what you are doing is a plugin created in C++ or Delphi, then yes.

http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41311 - Delphi importing
http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39677&highlight=plugin - C importing
http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13118&highlight=plugin - c++

SCAR has support for system API calls, so you can use that. You have to enable it first, though.

I wrote a simple plugin to load external programmes.

http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49162&highlight=runexe

Thanks for the replies, everyone.

I'll be a bit more specific. I plan to use SCAR to process a puzzle on a screen, export this state to an external solver, and retrieve and submit the results. I guess this could work for treasure trail puzzles too, although I was intending to use a different game.

I just want to do this in the simplest way possible. My knowledge of system level stuff is relatively limited, and I would like to avoid this as much as possible. My original idea would have used an external program and pipes on stdio.