On 22 May 2009, at 15:54, Marc Tecles wrote:
i'm trying to write a Cocoa application that launch a command line tool for example top. I've used NSTask with 2 NSPipe to launch the command line tool and to redirect the stdout and stderr to an NSTextview in my applycation asynchronously with Notification center. Now i want to send to the top application the keycode corresponding to the keyboard Q to terminate the task. I tried to write to the stdin without success. Do you have any idea how to send key code to a command line tool launch with NSTask ?
(Quick reminder: command line tools take strings of characters as input, not keycodes.)
Unfortunately, top doesn't accept keyboard input when it isn't attached to a terminal. Your best bet is to just kill() the child process. (The alternative is creating a pty, which involves all sorts of painful issues like parsing VT100 control sequences.)
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