Re: Running Gtk application in new terminal

[Alan Mazer <alan s mazer jpl nasa gov>]

Yes, except he said that his main program *isn't* using GTK+.  Now he 
could *convert* his main program to use glib and friends, but that's 
probably going to be a bigger task.  Worth it maybe for a major project 
with cross-platform aspirations, but probably not for a homework 
assignment in first-year CS.  We really don't have much context here for 
why he wants it, what his abilities are, who his target users are, ...

-- Alan


On 6/5/2014 9:59 AM, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:08:07 +0000
> "Mazer, Alan S (389M)" <Alan S Mazer jpl nasa gov> wrote:
> > Here you go.  This code implements a simple command processor, one
> > command of which starts up a gtk app.  I tried it with an app of mine
> > called "ngdcs" and it works.  You might want to read up on fork and
> > exec ("man fork", "man execv") but this does work for me:
> Since the OP is using GTK+, it seems more logical to use
> g_spawn_async() or g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), the latter of which will
> also set up pipes for stdin, stdout and stderr for you.  (And they are
> also cross-platform.)
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.40/glib-Spawning-Processes.html
>
> Chris