Re: redirecting stdout to a text widget

[Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix debian org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:39:46AM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:44, Janelle Contreras wrote:
> > Ok, I need help on how to redirect stdout to a text widget.  I am writing a
> > gui type shell used in the debug mode of our software, and many of the
> > libraries use printf's to make debugging comments.
>
> A couple of things come to mind.  There's popen.  That creates a pipe,
> runs an application and connects it's standard out to the pipe (maybe
> standard in to, so you can control the app).
<snip>

Actually, zvt term can do this all for you, with zvt_term_forkpty. Just
make sure you don't do any GUI output anymore in the child or hell will
come upon you.


Regards,

Filip

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