| Re: Redirect STDOUT [message #35427 is a reply to message #35426] |
Fri, 13 June 2003 04:04   |
R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998
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Chad Bender wrote:
> Reimar Bauer <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
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> : Does it help to set the xterm always in foregrund.
> : I don't understand why you are using print and not a widget for the output?
> : There are several available, Something like dialog_message or a text widget,
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> Setting the xterm to the foreground is not much of a help, as
> it just covers up part of the widget. As for using a text
> widget, that is what I would really like to do. The main program
> is calling a bunch of distinct subroutines that are already
> written and being used for other things. They were designed
> for use at the command line, and use print or message,/info
> statements to provide feedback to the user. Now when I
> call them from my widget routine, their messages naturally
> are displayed in the xterm as normal. What I really want is
> someway to either redirect all STDOUT output to a text widget,
> or else to a string array which I could then continuously dump
> to a text widget. Unfortunately, I don't think anything like
> this exists.
>
Did you have thougth on rereading the device of the terminal.
openr,lun,'/dev/stdout',/get_lun
Just an idea but should work
Reimar
> The only way I see of getting what I want is to make separate
> versions of all the subroutines I call, which are designed to
> display their output to a text widget. That is not a very
> attractive prospect, and if it is the only option, I'll
> probably just be content to have to switch back and forth
> between the xterm and the top widget.
>
> Chad
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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