Redirecting standard output & Possible forum bug
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Since I am unable to post my question I shall post this filler and attempt to edit it.
Edit: didn't work, I'll trying posting it as a reply
Edit2: That didn't work either.
Okay this is weird. I tried to post a question but got a "this document contains no data" message upon pressing the submit button instead. So I copied the text and tried a few more times; thinking it was a temporary problem. But it seems I just can't post this exact body of text.
I'll try posting it a little bit at a time.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 1, 2005 1:51:32 PM]
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This is the original quesiton:
I'm trying to use a console application like a function. Specifically, I'm trying to launch a console app from a windows app and read everything the console app posts into its standard output (e.g. wprintf, wcout). I tried following an example from msdn, but I'm not having any luck.
This is my code so far
But the final output is garbage (looks like a row of boxes).
Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
p.s. I'm just using _cmd.exe for testing purposes.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 1, 2005 9:03:40 AM]
I'm trying to use a console application like a function. Specifically, I'm trying to launch a console app from a windows app and read everything the console app posts into its standard output (e.g. wprintf, wcout). I tried following an example from msdn, but I'm not having any luck.
This is my code so far
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sAttr;sAttr.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);sAttr.bInheritHandle = true;sAttr.lpSecurityDescriptor = 0;HANDLE myRead,childWrite;if(!CreatePipe(&myRead,&childWrite,&sAttr,400)){ ErrorBox(L"could not create a pipe"); return;}SetHandleInformation(myRead,HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT,0);HANDLE childRead,myWrite;if(!CreatePipe(&childRead,&myWrite,&sAttr,0)){ CloseHandle(myRead); CloseHandle(childWrite); ErrorBox(L"could not create a second pipe"); return;}SetHandleInformation(myWrite,HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT,0);STARTUPINFO startupInfo = {0};startupInfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);startupInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;startupInfo.hStdInput = childRead;startupInfo.hStdOutput = childWrite;startupInfo.hStdError = childWrite;PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;if(!CreateProcess(L"C:\\WINXP2\\system32\\cmd.exe",0,0,0,true,0,0,0,&startupInfo,&processInfo)){ CloseHandle(myRead); CloseHandle(myWrite); CloseHandle(childRead); CloseHandle(childWrite); ErrorBox(L"cmd.exe could not be executed"); return;}CloseHandle(processInfo.hThread);WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess,INFINITE);CloseHandle(processInfo.hProcess);CloseHandle(childWrite);CloseHandle(childRead);CloseHandle(myWrite);wchar_t buffer[201];buffer[200] = 0;DWORD numRead;ReadFile(myRead,(LPVOID)&buffer,200*sizeof(wchar_t),&numRead,0);CloseHandle(myRead);MessageBox(hWnd,buffer,L"caption",MB_OK);But the final output is garbage (looks like a row of boxes).
Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
p.s. I'm just using _cmd.exe for testing purposes.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 1, 2005 9:03:40 AM]
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I have almost isolated the problem. I can't post the last little bit.
Edit: Looks like I can't add another 'e' or 'E'. Although I can add other letters.
Edit2: The problem is isolated. It seems I cannot post space-see-em-dee-dot-ee-ex-ee. I really would love to know the reason behind this.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 1, 2005 8:09:56 AM]
Edit: Looks like I can't add another 'e' or 'E'. Although I can add other letters.
Edit2: The problem is isolated. It seems I cannot post space-see-em-dee-dot-ee-ex-ee. I really would love to know the reason behind this.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 1, 2005 8:09:56 AM]
[SEMI_EDIT] Hmm... It looks like I can't post that dreaded cmd line executable either...
Can't say I know why that would be, but I do know that a while back I was trying to create a thread, and it would never take the message contents, only the title. It definitely pissed me off [grin] Anyway, you might want to PM one of the staff, it sounds like it might just be a forum bug, but even if it isn't, I'm sure they could give you an answer.
As for your question, I wish I could help, but I have very littel (read: next to none) knowledge in that area...
Can't say I know why that would be, but I do know that a while back I was trying to create a thread, and it would never take the message contents, only the title. It definitely pissed me off [grin] Anyway, you might want to PM one of the staff, it sounds like it might just be a forum bug, but even if it isn't, I'm sure they could give you an answer.
As for your question, I wish I could help, but I have very littel (read: next to none) knowledge in that area...
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GAH! What a huge oversight! The output wasn't garbage. It was perfectly intelligable when I tried
What's going on here? The same thing happens with my own console program which was definitely written with unicode strings.
Anyway, I thought for sure a moderator or staff member would have noticed this thread by now and explained or at least acknowledged the_cmd.exe issue. A PM it is, then.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 2, 2005 1:02:22 PM]
MessageBoxA(hWnd,(char*)buffer,"caption",MB_OK);What's going on here? The same thing happens with my own console program which was definitely written with unicode strings.
Anyway, I thought for sure a moderator or staff member would have noticed this thread by now and explained or at least acknowledged the_cmd.exe issue. A PM it is, then.
[Edited by - Ternary on September 2, 2005 1:02:22 PM]
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