Capturing stdout from an external program
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I have two different applications appDad and appKid. appDad is a Windows Forms Application and it calls appKid.exe. appKid does a series of prinf´s that I want to display in a text box in appDad. Some suggest that I use
FILE * output = _popen ("ls", "r")orfreopen ("/dev/tty", "w", stdout)but I´m not quite sure what I´m doing. Am I being lazy for asking instead of researching a bit more? I hope not... -
I have two different applications appDad and appKid. appDad is a Windows Forms Application and it calls appKid.exe. appKid does a series of prinf´s that I want to display in a text box in appDad. Some suggest that I use
FILE * output = _popen ("ls", "r")orfreopen ("/dev/tty", "w", stdout)but I´m not quite sure what I´m doing. Am I being lazy for asking instead of researching a bit more? I hope not... -
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piul wrote:
But... is there a simpler way to do it in .NET?
.NET is a framework, not a language. If you are referring to Managed C++, see here.
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