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

[Chas.Bigham]

Benoit Minisini wrote:

>On Thursday 02 September 2004 22:33, Chas.Bigham wrote:
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>>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:
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>>code
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>PUBLIC SUB btnScan_Click()
>>    EXEC [ "bdc", $Option0, $Option1, $Option2, $PathToBeScanned ] FOR READ
>>END
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>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....
>>
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>You must do 
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>DIM hProcess AS Process
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>EXEC [ "bdc", $Option0, $Option1, $Option2, $PathToBeScanned ] FOR READ AS 
>hProcess
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>to get the a reference to the process object in hProcess. Then you can use all 
>the methods and properties of the object.
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>See the MoviePlayer example that pilot mplayer the same way you want to pilot 
>bdc.
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>>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
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>To know hot to use a ColumnView, look at FPropertyProject.class in the IDE 
>sources. A ColumnView example will be a good idea :-)
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>Regards,
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Merci, Mr. Misini. The Process Kill works. And i am now looking into the 
columnview. thank you for the info and your help. most appreciated.

Chas. Bigham