Re: Q:show output from script

From: Thomas Matthews (Thomas_MatthewsSpamBotsSuck_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:48:59 GMT

R. Stormo wrote:
> I have a problem showing output that is comming from a script.
> If I make a script running at commandline it do work and everything
> are showing.
> But when I try to execute it from within my proggy it would not show.
> I have tried to save the outout to a file and again, when I runit from
> commandline it do save everything but from software it would not.
> It do only show things that are outputed with "echo"
>
> My routine for showing the file are, the execute script rutine are the same.
>
> FILE *fp; //The filePIPE
> char message[1024]; //Declare buffer to hold the file

What happens if the file is bigger than 1024 bytes?

> fp = fopen( myfilename, "r" );//Read read in txt mode
> if ( fp==NULL )
> msgbox("could not open file to read !!!", "Warning");//Show File not
> found!
> else
> {
> while( !feof( fp ) ) //check for EOF
> {
> fgets( line, 128, fp ); //Read 128 bytes
> strcat( message, line ); //Add this line to previous buffer

You should be checking the total bytes read to make sure
you don't overflow the buffer.

> }
> fclose(fp); //Close the filePIPE
> //------------------------------
> // Show the output in a dialogbox on screen
> //------------------------------
> eMessageBox msg(message, "OUTPUT", eMessageBox::iconInfo
> eMessageBox::btOK);
> msg.show(); msg.exec(); msg.hide();
>
> }
>
>
>
> In advance, thanks

This looks like a platform / operating system issue.
Many windowing operating systems do not support the
mixing of scripts and windowing. Does yours?

Perhaps you should ask about this on a newsgroup
dedicated to your platform. 

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