[Gambas-user] gambas noob needs assistance(2 questions)

[Chas.Bigham]

hi everyone. first, to the gambas development team: great job on gambas 
and thank you for a development environment i am familiar with. now i 
can learn more Basic coding and deploy apss and utilities i need for 
linux without having to scour the internet trying to find something that 
might meet my needs.

but, since i'm a noob at "visual basic like" languages (did BASIC coding 
years ago(GWBASI and BASICA) and only an introductory course to VB in 
college) i'm afraid i am rather on the novice level and finding 
difficulties implementing some features of the app i am currently 
working on (gui4bdc. see http://gui4bdc.sourceforge.net for more info 
</end shameless plug>.

i have two questions regarding features i would like to implement that 
i've not found covered well in either the gambas help docs, or were not 
covered at all in the Easy Gambas Doku(both of which have been 
invaluable resources up to now, as well as this mailing list). my first 
question regards how to kill a process id launched by my application. my 
application is a graphical front-end to a console app(Bit Defender) and 
thusly does this:

code
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

PUBLIC SUB btnScan_Click()
    EXEC [ "bdc", $Option0, $Option1, $Option2, $PathToBeScanned ] FOR READ
END
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

how can i get the process id of bdc and return it to my front-end so 
that i can enable a Stop Scan button, killing the bdc command and 
stopping it from scanning....


second question: in relation to the above EXEC statement, i would like 
to implement a Quarantine Viewer in my front-end, using a column view to 
display the contents of bdc's quarantine folders. bdc returns info that 
reads somethinmg like:
"/home/shared/setup.exe Infected VirusName.W32.AA"
what i want is to be able to parse that string into a columnview with 3 
headings: File, Status, and Infected With and the relevant bits given by 
bdc returned to each corresponding column. (ie: File: 
/home/shared/Setup.exe, Status: Infected, Infected With: VirusName.W32.AA)

i've read through the mailing list and while i've found answers to some 
of other problems i was having, i've been unable to find a suitable 
answer for both of these problems. any help that anyone can offer is 
greatly and genuinely appreciated

Thanks for your time and help
Chas. Bigham