// Created: 24/06/98
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Copyright: (c) 1998 Guilhem Lavaux
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#ifndef _WX_PROCESSH__
#define _WX_PROCESSH__
-#ifdef __GNUG__
+#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(__APPLE__)
#pragma interface "process.h"
#endif
#include "wx/utils.h" // for wxSignal
+// the wxProcess creation flags
+enum
+{
+ // no redirection
+ wxPROCESS_DEFAULT = 0,
+
+ // redirect the IO of the child process
+ wxPROCESS_REDIRECT = 1
+};
+
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// A wxProcess object should be passed to wxExecute - than its OnTerminate()
// function will be called when the process terminates.
class WXDLLEXPORT wxProcess : public wxEvtHandler
{
public:
+ // kill the process with the given PID
+ static wxKillError Kill(int pid, wxSignal sig = wxSIGTERM);
+
+ // test if the given process exists
+ static bool Exists(int pid);
+
+ // this function replaces the standard popen() one: it launches a process
+ // asynchronously and allows the caller to get the streams connected to its
+ // std{in|out|err}
+ //
+ // on error NULL is returned, in any case the process object will be
+ // deleted automatically when the process terminates and should *not* be
+ // deleted by the caller
+ static wxProcess *Open(const wxString& cmd, int flags = wxEXEC_ASYNC);
+
+
+ // ctors
wxProcess(wxEvtHandler *parent = (wxEvtHandler *) NULL, int id = -1)
- { Init(parent, id, FALSE); }
- wxProcess(wxEvtHandler *parent, bool redirect)
- { Init(parent, -1, redirect); }
+ { Init(parent, id, wxPROCESS_DEFAULT); }
+
+ wxProcess(int flags) { Init(NULL, -1, flags); }
virtual ~wxProcess();
// close the output stream indicating that nothing more will be written
void CloseOutput() { delete m_outputStream; m_outputStream = NULL; }
+ // return TRUE if the child process stdout is not closed
+ bool IsInputOpened() const;
+
+ // return TRUE if any input is available on the child process stdout/err
+ bool IsInputAvailable() const;
+ bool IsErrorAvailable() const;
+
// implementation only (for wxExecute)
- void SetPipeStreams(wxInputStream *inStream,
- wxOutputStream *outStream,
+ //
+ // NB: the streams passed here should correspond to the child process
+ // stdout, stdin and stderr and here the normal naming convention is
+ // used unlike elsewhere in this class
+ void SetPipeStreams(wxInputStream *outStream,
+ wxOutputStream *inStream,
wxInputStream *errStream);
#endif // wxUSE_STREAMS
- // kill the process with the given PID
- static wxKillError Kill(int pid, wxSignal sig = wxSIGTERM);
-
- // test if the given process exists
- static bool Exists(int pid);
+ // for backwards compatibility only, don't use
+#if WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
+ wxProcess(wxEvtHandler *parent, bool redirect)
+ { Init(parent, -1, redirect ? wxPROCESS_REDIRECT : wxPROCESS_DEFAULT); }
+#endif // WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2
protected:
- void Init(wxEvtHandler *parent, int id, bool redirect);
+ void Init(wxEvtHandler *parent, int id, int flags);
int m_id;
#if wxUSE_STREAMS
+ // these streams are connected to stdout, stderr and stdin of the child
+ // process respectively (yes, m_inputStream corresponds to stdout -- very
+ // confusing but too late to change now)
wxInputStream *m_inputStream,
*m_errorStream;
wxOutputStream *m_outputStream;
bool m_redirect;
DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxProcess)
+ DECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxProcess)
};
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------