Re: Capture console app output into texview?

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Till Harbaum / Lists <lists harbaum org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i am trying to run a text mode application in the background of my gtk one
> and display its output in a textview. I know this is supposed to be done
> using g_spawn_async_with_pipes and then link to the output via
> g_io_add_watch. I even got something that sort of works, but the output is
> very much delayed and comes in chunks and worse, the CPU load is at max
> while and after i run my code.
>
> Are there any examples for doing this? There must be many programs doing
> something similar to run e.g. some little helper program or similar.
>
> Can you consider using the VteTerminal[1] widget? This is the same terminal
widget used in gnome-terminal and in Ubuntu/Debian graphical frontends to
dpkg. It lets you embed a ternimal that you can bind to any program, you're
not forced to bind it to a shell.

VteTerminal will take care of monitoring your process and grabbing all
output for you. The only drawback is that the widget doesn't work on win32.

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html

Emmanuel Rodriguez