[Gambas-user] Control GUI (Qt5) Gambas program via Standard Input

[Bruce Steers]

I just quickly made this simple terminal application i call 1Space.gambas
....
it converts text to only have one space between words.
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' Gambas module file

Private bReading As Boolean

Public Sub Application_Read()

  Dim sTxt As String
  bReading = True

  While Lof(Last)
    sTxt = Last.ReadLine()
    Print Split(sTxt, " ", Null, True).Join(" ")
  Wend

  bReading = False

End

Public Sub Main()

  If Args.Max Then
     For c As Integer = 1 To Args.Max
       Print Split(Args[c], " ", Null, True).Join(" ")
     Next
  Else
    Wait 0.1 ' give the pipe a chance to set bReading if there is a pipe.
    While bReading
      Wait 0.1
    Wend
  Endif

File.In.Close

End
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I can use...

1Space.gambas "Test   tooo    many     spaces"

and also

echo "Test   tooo    many     spaces" | 1Space.gambas

Cool , I did not know how to do that till i read this thread :)
Cheers

Respects
BruceS

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 01:00, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> it's the  input handlere.
>
> Putting this in Form_close() fixes it...
> File.In.Close
>
>
> Public Sub Form_Close()
>
>   File.In.Close
>
> End
>
> Respects
> BruceS
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 23:08, <james at lixce.com> wrote:
>
>> Lee,
>> I noticed the same effect of the app not stoping when using the STATIC
>> keyword.  Guess I need to dig into the interpreter source code and see if I
>> can figure anything out which is unlikely because I'm just not that smart.
>>
>> Brian G,
>> I'm passing data and control codes from one Gambas Gui application to
>> another.  For example; I want my Weather program to update the current
>> conditions in the Panel application that is always running, the menu based
>> Launcher app requests the panel launch new programs so that the Panel app
>> is the parent of the newly launched process and the Launcher app can exit
>> cleanly, The Contact app requests the Browser open webpages and the Phone
>> Dialer make calls, the Wordprocessor calls the Dictionary app to define a
>> word, etc.  The single threaded nature of Gambas makes small programs that
>> cooperate more responsive than large monolithic programs.  I can use Pipes
>> or Watch files or even Signals to do these things but Standard In is the
>> traditional (pre-DBUS ) way of doing it and, IF I can get it working, it is
>> an elegant solution as Standard Input is automatically created by the
>> Kernel in a well-documented location that can be derived from the PID of
>> any running application.
>>
>> Regards,
>> J. Jordan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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