[Glade-users] newbie: making system calls from GUI

[Joachim Backes <backes rhrk uni-kl de> (Joachim Backes)]

On 06-Feb-2003 Manu C S wrote: 
>  Hi,
>  
>  I'm making a GUI for system commands.
>  For example, when a user clicks on a button, I want some system
>  command to be executed in the background and I want to trap the
>  output of the command and display it in my GUI.
>  
>  For example, if I want to launch a browser from my gui
>  when a user clicks on a certain button, should I have this in
>  the callback function of that button:
>      system("mozilla");
>  Is that correct?
>  How do I handle commands that write to stdout?

Use the "popen()" system call.

Regards

Joachim Backes

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