programming question

[Rick Sivernell]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:19:11 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> 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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Roger

  Thanks, looks like there are still many ways to do this. I am writing the code in
c++, with wxWindows GUI lib. You Kurt & lonnie have given me some great &
interesting info.

cheers
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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Gentoo Linux
Registered Linux User #193859

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