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These are notes how to start external process that has UI within BVMS scriplet. This method requires programming effort.

• creation of an UI application which opens an endpoint for inter-process-communication (IPC), e.g. a socket server.
• The virtual input event starts execution of a server scriptlet, which connects to the IPC endpoint and sends some information (event name, state...).
• The UI application receives the information and triggers the "certain action" which is mentioned above. This application could also run on a different machine - the server scriplet could establish a connection to an endpoint on an other machine.Here is an example server scriptlet which connects to a socket server.
  These information bases on following article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/networking/sockets/socket-services
  

public void SendDataBySocketClient(EventData e)

{
   this.Logger.Info("SendDataBySocketClient - Start script execution");
   try
   {
      // Example for getting the endpoint of the socket server: local host and port 11000 are used here.
      var strHostName = Dns.GetHostName();
      this.Logger.Info("SendDataBySocketClient - Local Machine's Host Name: " + strHostName);
      IPHostEntry ipEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(strHostName);
      IPAddress ipAddress = ipEntry.AddressList[0];
      IPEndPoint ipEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ipAddress, 11000);
 
      Socket client = new Socket(ipEndPoint.AddressFamily, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
      client.Connect(ipEndPoint);
      while (true)
      {
         // Example for sending a message.
         var message = "EventType:" + e.Type + " DeviceName:" + e.DeviceName + " StateInfo:" + e.State.New + "<|EOM|>";
         var messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message);
         client.Send(messageBytes, SocketFlags.None);
 
         // Example for 'any kind of' handshake:
         var buffer = new byte[1024];
         var received = client.Receive(buffer, SocketFlags.None);
         var response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 0, received);
         if (response == "<|ACK|>")
         

{             this.Logger.Info("SendDataBySocketClient - Socket client received acknowledgment: " + response);             break;          }

      }
 
      client.Shutdown(SocketShutdown.Both);
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   

{       this.Logger.Info("SendDataBySocketClient - Exception: " + ex.ToString());    }

 
   // this.Logger.Info("SendDataBySocketClient - Finish script execution");
}