How to send window id from another application to this plugin?

[alokmahor]

Thanks for creating this sample plugin. This plugin is recieving windowId from web application.

I do not want to use http server based approach to send windowId.

I want to send windowId from my electron.js based application. There would be way using IPC(Inter Process Communication).

How can I send windowId to this plugin?

[knightbenax]

Hi @alokmahor. windowId isn't coming from a web application, it's coming from the macOS companion app. I am spinning up a local http server to send the id because I couldn't find enough documentation on how to make the IPC work in the timeline that I needed it done

[alokmahor]

OBS mac-virtualcam is using NSMachBootstrapServer and will plan to use NSXPCConnection according to https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins/mac-virtualcam/src/obs-plugin/OBSDALMachServer.mm

so I guess we have to use XPC

[knightbenax]

That makes sense. I would find some time to play around with XPC and implement it here, that should definitely be faster. Also if you do manage to get it work, you could make a PR or share

[alokmahor]

Yes if I get any IPC based solution I will create pull request