[Gambas-user] Shell / Exec Question

[Brant Wells]

Hey Charlie:

I understand that the X apps don't really need StdOut or ErrOut...  What 
I was actually looking for would be a way to monitor an application, and 
when that application has the focus, monitor the keyboard for certain 
combinations, or to follow the mouse outside of a drawing area, or even 
outside of my application.  I realize I'm probably getting into a lot of 
the X-windows API calls, etc...  But it would be nice, say to be able to 
bring kCalc to the front, even if my application didn't start it...  and 
then do like a SendKeys or something for 2+2, then Sendkeys("{CTRL}+C"), 
and switch to another application, say, OOCalc (the OpenOffice.Org's 
Spreadsheet App) and paste that value into one of the cells. 

I know that's a far-fetched example, as I have forgotten really what I 
wanted to do with it, as I have found another way to do what I 
wanted...  Check out the Log App that I posted last week...  Does Gambas 
have a way to call external API yet like, say, from the X libs ??

Thanks!!
~Brant

Charlie wrote:

> Salut Brant,
>
> in examples/console you can also start X applications and if ever this 
> X applications has something to say at StdOut (I don't think so) or 
> ErrOut (you have better cards in hight debug-levels) so  it
> would trigger the Process_Read and this is shown in the 
> examples/console Output-Window .
>
> Why should X applications talk via StdOut ?
>
>
> Amicalement
> Charlie