Want to call from within Filemaker a Xojo app and pass just one text parameter.
What is the easiest way?
Some background. I have a Point-Of-Sale Filemaker app and an Epson networked receipt printer. When I use the printer driver from Epson all works fine but it takes 4 sec between pushing the receipt button and the printing of the receipt. To long.
When I use Xojo and a TCPsocket, it prints immediately. So I can make a simple Xojo app just to receive a string with all ESC/POS codes (the codes that Epson uses) and print the receipt.
I can call from within Filemaker an external app with an AppleScript command but how do I send the data to the Xojo app? By passing an argument? Or another method?
It’s a networked printer with an IP address and no server available.
I’m no Xojo expert. It needs to be simple and quick.
Any ideas?
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