question

I've played a bit with code like the following:

string cmd = programdatadir()+"gethostname.bat";
string hostfile = programdatadir()+"hostname.txt";
fileopen(cmd, "w");
fpt("hostname > \""+hostfile+"\"");
fileclose();
runprogram(cmd);
fileopen(hostfile, "r");
string hostname = filereadline();
fileclose();
return hostname;

It isn't ideal. It works best if FlexSim is running with elevated privileges. If not, sometimes it takes running it twice to actually read the hostname from the written file.

It also flashes a black command prompt window, and sometimes makes FlexSim lose window focus.

If anything, it is a starting point to discover maybe a better way of doing it.

Joerg's C++ suggestion might be the best way. You could encapsulate the functionality you need in a DLL, then call it from FlexSim and get the value directly, rather than the above workaround writing and reading to files and launching a command prompt.

Good luck!