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Seffyroff
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 Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 5:14 pm Post subject: A Few Small coding conundrums |
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Folks,
I've tried for most of today to figure these out, can anyone offer advice?
I know some of these things are fairly specific..
1> Is it possible to pass parameters to subroutines, like in certain BASIC languages? ie 'gosub mysub(myoption1,myoption2)'
2> How can I dump the contents of a list box out to a text file?
3> Is there any way to get the output of a commandline program that is being run, and display it (within a list box?) |
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Dr. Dread
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: A Few Small coding conundrums |
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| Quote: | 1> Is it possible to pass parameters to subroutines, like in certain
BASIC languages? ie 'gosub mysub(myoption1,myoption2)' |
No, you cannot do it in this way. But you can of course put your
parameters in variables and just use those variables in your subroutines.
| Quote: | | 2> How can I dump the contents of a list box out to a text file? |
Use a command such as:
LIST SAVEFILE,yourlist,output.txt
| Quote: | 3> Is there any way to get the output of a commandline program that is being run
and display it (within a list box?) |
One way is to direct the output of your command line program to a file and then load this file into
your list. Like this:
RUN ping.exe www.winzip.com > ping-out.txt
LIST LOADFILE,yourlist,ping-out.txt
Greetz
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Seffyroff
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: A Few Small coding conundrums |
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Thanks dread!
Sorry, some of those questions were a little obvious. I figured out the list to file one shortly after posting.. i'll try to look more thoroughly before posting again.
Thanks again. |
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Dr. Dread
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| Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry about it - just go ahead and ask if you cannot figure out something.
This is a very well-mannered forum; you'll see no RTFM answers here, I think.
Have a nice day.
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Garrett
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 12:57 am Post subject: |
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The only stupid question is the one not asked.
Everyone here remembers what it's like starting out with a new programming language, so we understand what you are going through right now.
The only thing that's not tolerated here, and you will get someone all over you for this.... Is if you get lazy and try to get others to do something that you should do yourself.
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Seffyroff
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having real problems displaying the output of a program in a list window. This is what i'm doing:
I have an output window which is a list. Various messages are displayed here whilst the program is running. During program execution I call a number of commandline tools, and pipe their output to text files. after each commandline tool has finished, I want to add the contents of the piped text file to my list window, without overwriting the information already in it.
The nearest i've gotten to having this working is by having it overwriting the existing messages in the list with the contents of the text file (LIST ASSIGN). LIST ADD doesn't appear to work.
here's what i'm up to anyways:
| Code: | :TARGSout
LIST CREATE, 6
LIST LOADFILE,6,c:\targs-out.txt
REPEAT
LIST ADD,OutputWindow,@NEXT(6)
gosub scrollwindow
UNTIL @NOT(@OK())
LIST ADD, OutputWindow, @DLGTEXT(6)
LIST CLOSE, 6
Exit
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the subroutine scrollwindow makes sure the window keeps up with the messages appearing in it, and looks like this:
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:scrollwindow
rem move window focus to most recent item
DIALOG FOCUS, OutputWindow
IF @GREATER(@COUNT(OutputWindow))
LIST SEEK, OutputWindow, @PRED(@COUNT(OutputWindow))
END
Exit
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This gets stuck in an infinite loop and scrolls the window down indefinitely. not sure wether its getting stuck in scrollwindow or in the text file displayer. I'm wondering if the OK value is getting set wrong by the scroll subroutine before returning to the rest of the text file displayer. Any ideas anyone? If you need to see more of the code i'll post it. |
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Dr. Dread
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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I see one error:
| Code: | | IF @GREATER(@COUNT(OutputWindow)) |
The second compare value is missing, you should have something like this:
| Code: | | IF @GREATER(@COUNT(OutputWindow),0) |
If you want to see where your program starts looping, try to use the VDS editor's
'debug script' button which will highlight the active line of your script while running
and so you will be able to see it working. If it is too fast for you try to put in a few
WAIT commands in strategic places.
Greetz
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Mac
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Try this approach (I've had some problems with @next() in loops).
This also eliminates having a separate scroll routine.
I'm not real sure, but I don't think you need the DIALOG FOCUS
command. If you need it, remove the "rem", otherwise remove
the whole line.
Also, if you're reading each line as it loads, you might want a WAIT
or WAIT ".5", etc. inserted in the loop...
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rem -- I'd create this list at the start of the program, and just clear
rem -- it each time (especially if you constantly use it).
LIST CREATE, 6
:TARGSout
LIST LOADFILE,6,c:\targs-out.txt
if @greater(@count(6), 0)
%x = 0
REPEAT
LIST ADD,OutputWindow, @item(6, %x)
rem DIALOG FOCUS, OutputWindow
LIST SEEK, OutputWindow, @pred(@count(OutputWindow))
%x = @succ(%x)
UNTIL @equal(%x, @count(6))
LIST CLEAR, 6
end
Exit
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