[Gambas-user] Stopping a CLI program

Tobias Boege taboege at ...626...
Sun Dec 8 18:06:39 CET 2013


On Sun, 08 Dec 2013, John Rose wrote:
> I want  to be able to stop a CLI program (started by an Exec statement) 
> as though the user was keying in a special character from the keyboard. 
> Specifically, I want to stop ffmpeg recording to disk when grabbing 
> streaming video using x11grab. The recording is stopped by the user 
> entering q if the program is started by entering ffmpeg (followed by its 
> parameters) in a Terminal. How is this done in Gambas3?
> 

I guess you can

Print #hFfmpeg, "q"

if you opened it For Output... However, in my project, I simply use
hFfmpeg.Kill() without losing any information.

Regards,
Tobi

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