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Re: Launcing a child process from VCL - re-direct STDIO

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From: Tom Caton
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:32

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Gambit,

Thanks - the CreateProcess route worked OK - I found a code sampe in the
Microsoft ToolKit Samples - INHERIT.C which had most things in.
Tom


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Tom Caton" <tom_caton@xyratex.com> wrote in message
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> > I want to press a button on my form to launch another windows
> > process, while the process is running I want to redirect the child's
> > process stdout into a VCL memo box.
>
> Spawn the process using CreateProcess().  That will allow you to provide
> your own STDOUT handle, which you can create using CreatePipe().  Then,
for
> the lifetime of the process, you can call ReadFile() to receive any
> outputted data which you can then do whatever you want with.
>
>
> Gambit
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