Re: Help about VteTerminal

[Brian <dol-sen telus net>]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:01 +0800, Shixin Zeng wrote:
> I'm writing a Gtk+ frontend for lftp. I want to create a VteTerminal,
> and launch "lftp" with the function vte_terminal_fork_command (). But
> I don't know how to get the output of the child process? I need the
> output to analysis and show it with GtkTreeView.
I have tried getting the output as well with the python interface
without any reliable results.  I seemed to think it was that python was
too slow to keep up mostly.  Some text would be duplicated, other times
it was missing a chunk.

If you enabled the docs when you installed the vte package it generates
html pages similar to devhelp that lists and explains all options
availabe.  Here is the docs I found on nalins site:
http://people.redhat.com/nalin/vte/html/

I connected to the signal "cursor_moved", then used the
vte_terminal_get_text func. here is the short listing of them:

char*       vte_terminal_get_text           (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                             gboolean (*is_selected) (VteTerminal *terminal,glong 
column,glong row,gpointer data),
                                             gpointer data,
                                             GArray *attributes);
char*       vte_terminal_get_text_range     (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                             glong start_row,
                                             glong start_col,
                                             glong end_row,
                                             glong end_col,
                                             gboolean (*is_selected) (VteTerminal *terminal,glong 
column,glong row,gpointer data),
                                             gpointer data,
                                             GArray *attributes);
void        vte_terminal_get_cursor_position
                                            (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                             glong *column,
                                             glong *row);


I so far have been unable to get a signal back when a shell run command
has finished.  I can get the "child_exited" and "eof" signals when the
fork() terminates, but I want to be able to keep the primary fork
running with a normal shell.  Then feed the shell the commands.  So far
I have not been able to get feedback when the command has finished.  Any
ideas?

The only thing I have thought of so far is to chain another command to
it that somehow signals my monitoring function that it has completed.

e.g.   my_command = "some_command & my_feedback_command"
       vte_terminal_feed_child(my_command, len(my_command))
-- 
Brian <dol-sen telus net>