programming question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:25:05 -0600
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi list
> 
>    I am creating a IDE, and I want to call a terminal program, xterm -
>    Eterm etc., &
> have it start compiling a program, get the the output for display in a ide
> window. Has anyone done this before and would like to share it with me. I
> would be extremely gratefull and raise a very large cold one, warm one
> from of the friends in the UK, in your honour<g>.  You can contact me
> offlist to save bandwidth. Thanks in advance.

If the output will be in an IDE window, which I assume is not the xterm, why
the xterm? All you need to do is exec a shell and redirect the output. When
I run make over our whole package, I do this to get EVERYTHING in a file:

	system("nohup make all >my.log 2>&1 &");

is the simplest form. Remove the trailing '&' as needed.

I then go about my business, perhaps even logging off (hence the nohup). All
output, including to stderr, are in my.log in the correct place. Pop the
contents of my.log into a window in your IDE and you are set. You even have
the freedom of searching the log for errors and all that sort of thing.

If your IDE was in Tcl (I forget who on this list was playing with Tcl), you
could use an xterm in your application in a very nice way with the BLT
extension's 'container' function. Just put the xterm in another window along
with all the other widgets in the window. It will look like part of your
GUI. Very slick. Tcl's 'toplevel' command also can do something similar.


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