Class Reference console

Using the TextEditor as a console. More...

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Detailed Description

console turns the central Text Editor into a terminal for an external command-line program. You start that program only from a macro, with the static openConsole. After that, send types a line into the same console, and exists tells you whether that application is still attached. Commands can also be typed by hand in the Text Editor once the console is open. All members are static; you never construct a console object. The window that shows the output is a textEdit.

Example:

stringList args;
if (!console::openConsole("mytool", "/usr/bin", args))
 return 1;
console::send("mytool", "help\n");

Member Function Documentation

static bool console::openConsole(string app,string path, stringList parameter)

Starts app as a console in the central Text Editor. The executable is searched in path and in the usual system locations. parameter is the argument list passed to the process.

Returns: true if the console was started, otherwise false.

static bool console::exists(string app)

Returns: true, if a console with the application exists.

static void console::send(string app, string command)

Sends command to the console of the appllication app.