Read from process

[Glen Bojsza]

Well I appreciate the input.

This area needs more examples since the potential is huge (IMHO).

Worst case I lock the user down until the process completes but give a nice
"Be patient" message.

regards,

Glen

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe its time to go with the Bob method?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting. Not sure whats up then because "read until empty" should
> grab
> > whatever happens to be in the buffer at the time. Whether its read for
> 10,
> > or whatever all the same data passes through the buffer. Meaning the data
> > is the data and the method used to read shouldn't make a difference as
> far
> > as the content so I freely admit to being flummoxed.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Glen Bojsza <gbojsza at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Mike,
> >>
> >> Well using your code I get the expected result at the end of the process
> >> but the interim output that I try to capture shows nothing?
> >>
> >> So good news - using your method I get the end result and the user is
> free
> >> to do other things  ; / bad news - I can't show the interim output for
> >> feedback.
> >>
> >> If I use the following code I get the opposite effect - user cannot do
> >> anything until the process completes but the interim output updates to
> the
> >> field.
> >>
> >> In both cases the process completes with the final results.
> >>
> >> So it has to do with the timing of the send and the reading of the
> process
> >> (I also tried reading lines and have the same result as reading
> characters
> >> as shown below)
> >>
> >> local nM
> >> on mouseUp
> >>   startProcess
> >> end mouseUp
> >>
> >> command startProcess
> >>   put fld dbPathList into nM
> >>   open process nM for update
> >>    set the cRunning of this card to true
> >>    readloop
> >> end startProcess
> >>
> >> command readloop
> >>   if the the cRunning of this card then
> >>       read from process nM for 10
> >>       if it is not empty then
> >>          put it & cr after fld mergeOut
> >>         put the number of lines of fld mergeOut * 16 into sPlace
> >>         set the vscroll of fld mergeOut to sPlace
> >>         if it contains "dblink disconnecting" then
> >>            set the cRunning of this card to false
> >>            close process nM
> >>            exit to top
> >>          end if
> >>         send "readloop" to me in 1 tick
> >>      end if
> >>      end if
> >>
> >> end readloop
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Sorry for posting and falling off the earth. A bit sick today but will
> >> try
> >> > and give the gist of a send in time loop. This is just off the top of
> my
> >> > head and as always there are probably better ways to do this (also as
> I
> >> > mentioned before, not sure which forms of read will block and which
> >> won't
> >> > so your mileage may vary depending on need)
> >> >
> >> > command startProcess
> >> > ## code to connect to the process
> >> > open process "myprocess" for update
> >> > ## check for errors opening the process, if no errors then
> >> > set the cRunning of this card to true -- a method to break the loop,
> >> set to
> >> > false to stop the loop
> >> >
> >> > readloop -- handler to do the read
> >> > end startProcess
> >> >
> >> > command readloop
> >> > if the the cRunning of this card then
> >> > read from process "myProcess" until empty
> >> > if it is not empty then
> >> > #do whatever you want with the resulting read.
> >> > #if the end line is read, close process set the cRunning of this card
> to
> >> > false
> >> > end if
> >> > send "readloop" to me in 1 tick
> >> > end if
> >> >
> >> > end readloop
> >> >
> >> >
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