Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: callback from event loop in wxPython

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:13, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:54, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > - legacy medical practice app without document archive selects
> >   a patient
> > - it attaches to gnumed
> > - it tells gnumed to call up its document archive plugin for
> >   that patient
> > - it tells gnumed to stay locked onto that patient
> > - user works with the gnumed gui handling various documents
> > - user decides to add a vaccination for this patient - this is
> >   possible but it is not possible to change to another patient
> >   from inside the gui
> > - user "returns" to legacy app thereby releasing the gnumed
> >   lock
>
> How about:
> legacy app call XML-RPC service "gnumed archiver"  with parameter patient
> ID - the XML-RPC server gets the call
> - spawns an instance of the archiver module
> - returns a handle
> legacy app is happy, instance can close:
> - XML-RPC call to server "close handle <n>"
> - server closes instance with handle <n>
>
> If legacy app wants gnumed module to do someting, it just accesses the
> module's API via the same XML-RPC server, passing handle, command and
> parameters as parameters.
>
> On the client side, you can have a simple XML-RPC client that can be piped
> into via stdin/stdout or whatever.
>
> Horst
>
Is the legacy app something like pilot-link?
Will this schema ultimately allow transfer to standalone device which can take 
a trip out of the surgery?
Liz
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