I need to build a GUI application, which should act as a simple-to-use front-end to a Windows console program. The console program accepts a number of different commands, which are specified on its command line as parameters separated by spaces. When the console program is started with these parameters it performs its task and then exits.
The command line parameters are rather complex and this is why I would like to build the GUI application in Delphi7 so I can present a comfortable view of it. So now I need it to do the following: 1) Run the console program with the given parameters. 2) Read back the output of the console program (it will be printed in the console). 3) Detect when the console program asks something and let the user read this in the GUI app and then respond to it by typing in the GUI. In the past (Using Delphi) and for other reasons I created a few helpers which I called ExecStart and ExecWait. Both of these starts a program, but the Wait variation also waits until the program exits. I used CreateProcess to start the program and WaitForSingleObject to check if it finished OK using its handle. So with ExecStart I can start a program with command line parameters all right, but how do I pick up the data printed to the console by the program while it runs? And how do I enter new input that the program may require when it does not finish execution? Any pointers to how this can be done appreciated. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
