-- Drives Kneedeck from Lua with LuaSocket, on the same PC: DCS World (Export.lua, a hook) or any Lua.
--
--   local kneedeck = dofile(lfs.writedir() .. "Scripts\kneedeck.lua")
--   kneedeck.send('{"tab": "Carte LFXX", "page": 3}')
--   kneedeck.send('[{"profile": "Mirage F1"}, {"action": "show"}]')
--
-- A message is a JSON text: one object, or a list of them. Kneedeck listens on this PC only, on port
-- 47831, and answers nothing.

-- Where DCS keeps LuaSocket; elsewhere, the LuaSocket installed is found as usual.
package.path = package.path .. ";.\LuaSocket\?.lua"
package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";.\LuaSocket\?.dll"
local socket = require("socket")

local kneedeck = { port = 47831 }
local udp = socket.udp()

function kneedeck.send(json)
  udp:sendto(json, "127.0.0.1", kneedeck.port)
end

return kneedeck