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

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 05:49:31 CET 2023


On 2/13/23 20:59, Bruce Steers wrote:
> 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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[snip]
> ---------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 

So, Application_Read fires if stdin is via a pipe but not if it is via stdin of the process' file descriptor?

@BruceS, to answer your question from another message, James is using redirection to send the data to stdin, eg.:
echo "hello" > /proc/$(pgrep -f std-in-test)/fd/0


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Lee



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