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Remote Interface

MB-Ruler has a developer interface to communicate with other applications.
For the communication, the windows messageing system is used (SendMessage and PostMessage).

The installation of MB-Ruler includes an example application (with Delphi 5 source code) the remote interface. (RulerRemoteInterface.exe bzw. RulerRemoteInterface.zip in the application directory of MB-Ruler)

The MB-Ruler remote interface offers these function:

  • set the active measure instrument
  • get the active measure instrument
  • get the measured data of the active measure instrument
  • get the position data of the active measure instrument
  • set the position data of the active measure instrument
  • store measure data
  • inform the client application, when values have changes
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