Command Line Feedback

[MusiX]

Hi

I run a commandline application from SWFKit using Shell.run(...). The command line application has several output. Is there a possibility to read this output with SWFKit?

I need this to check whether the commandline application terminated successfully or not.

Even better would be a way to read the commandline output while the commandline app is working. That way I could read how many percent the app has completed and show this in a graphically manner inside my SWFKit application.

And is there a way in SWFKit to check if an application started with Shell.run(...) is running?

Thanks a lot for your support!

[SWFKit]

SWFKit Pro v3 has the ability to read the output of a console program:

var msg = Shell.runConsole("ping www.microsoft.com");
trace(msg);

However, it cannot synchronously read the output of a running console program. The runConsole method will return only if the console program returns.

[MusiX]

Thanks a lot.

Any idea on my second question?
> And is there a way in SWFKit to check if an application started with Shell.run(...) is running or is finished?

[SWFKit]

That's a little hard. You would have to write a dll to lanuch your application in a thread and wait for it to return. When it returns, the thread posts a message to the main window so that the main window will know when the app returns.

[stevekellogg]

Shouldn't I be able to use runConsole to run a .BAT file?

I've had a lot of trouble running an application (WITH PARAMETERS) from within Flex, and I was really hoping that runConsole might be the solution.

Steve