How to run a script using Shell in the background?

[Kevin]

Since you are uing the "shell" you can execute the command with the "&" under *NIX ( ps& runs ps without blocking the calling program/shell) and under windows simply use "start" ( start "command" ).

Kevin



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 --- On Thu 03/11, Bojsza < gbojsza at mac.com > wrote:
From: Bojsza [mailto: gbojsza at mac.com]
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:33:41 -0600
Subject: How to run a script using Shell in the background?

I have an application where one of the button's contains a script using <br>the Shell function.<br><br>The Shell function runs a command line argument against a user selected <br>file.<br><br>If the user has selected a large file it takes a couple of hours for <br>the Shell function to complete (this is normal time frame if the <br>equivalent command line was done outside of Revolution).<br><br>The button with the command is pretty basic<br><br>on mouseUp<br>...<br>...<br>put Shell ("cmd and selected file") into fld outPut<br>end mouseUp<br><br>In this form the user cannot do anything else with the Revolution <br>application (waiting for the script to complete).<br><br>Surely there is a way to have the Shell run in the background therefore <br>allowing the user to do other things in the application?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Glen<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>use-revolution mailing list<br>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com<br>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution<br>

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