Besides being a subroutine (Scripting 8.1. The sendpraat subroutine) and a program (Scripting 8.2. The sendpraat program), sendpraat can also be called from within a Praat script.

Example 1: killing a program

Suppose we are in the Praat-shell program Als, which is a browser for dictionaries, and we want to kill the Praat-shell program Praat, which is a program for phonetics research:

Example 2: playing a sound

Suppose we are in the Praat-shell program Als, which is a browser for dictionaries, and has no idea of what a sound is. From this program, we can play a sound file by sending a message to the Praat-shell program Praat, which does know about sounds:

The first newline$ is superfluous, but this format seems to read nicely.

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• Scripting 8. Controlling Praat from another program