[Gambas-user] Executing Shell command (also applies to Exec command), FMain form goes blank

[Jussi Lahtinen]

See:
http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/shell?v3

Generally speaking, documentation is here:
http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang?v3


Jussi



On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 16:22, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:

>
> This doesn't make much sense.
>
>
> sInstruction = "get_iplayer --force --get Shock --output " & sDirectory
>> & " --raw >" & sLogFilename & " 2>&1"
>>
>
> Here you are directing all output to sLogFilename.
>
>
> Shell sInstruction To sOutput
>
> Here you are expecting something to appear to sOutput!
> Interpreted is doing exactly what it supposed to do, wait for something to
> write to sOutput.
> That's why GUI isn't refreshed.
>
> Jussi
>