[Gambas-user] EXEC or SHELL to stop a started app- please help

[Benoit Minisini]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 21:30, Michael Bergmann wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I am totally new to gambas (...did some VB 6 under Windoze, nothing really
> special) and to this group, too.
>
> I started using gambas, because I wanted to put together a small GUI to run
> some apps in order to use my PCTV Sat under Linux (SuSE 9.1). The prob is -
> I have to CTRL-C an app, namely szap, before I can zap to the next channel
> of my TV-Application. Now, if I start it like :
> EXEC ["/usr/bin/szap", "-r", "MTV"], it works fine. szap selects my desired
> channel. But: How can I stop the running szap, prefarably by sending a
> CTRL-C?! I have to stop it in order to select anpther channel, so my whole
> GUI is strictly for the feed if I can't.
>
> Could somebody out there please give me a glue?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Michael
>

You must do:

  DIM hProcess AS Process

  EXEC [ "/usr/bin/szap", "-r", "MTV (blah)" ] AS hProcess

And to stop the program

  hProcess.Kill

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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