pub.freeprocess

I have managed to start an external player with the freeprocess module. The player is started in a slave mode where it can recieve commands via STDIN, but I do not know how to do so using the freeprocess, but I am almost certain that it should be possible.

Do anyone have any examples of how to start and communicate with an external program using the pub.freeprocess module?

It should be process.pipe.WriteLine() but I am having trouble getting that to work.

MaxIDE itself has a somewhat harry example in the form of TOutputPanel (maxide.bmx, line 1709 or so). I am trying to pull that apart.

This thread has an example of reading data: http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=67787

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I am having no luck with that either. I will take another look at that tomorrow, its way too late now and I got the get some sleep before work tomorrow. I am looking forward to hear if you discover anything useful.

Didn't get a chance to look at this yet. Should be able to tomorrow or maybe a bit tonight.

I got it working with Mplayer. I had overlooked that I needed a line change at the end of the command.

Local pipe:TPipeStream
pipe=test.process.pipe
pipe.WriteLine( "pause"+Chr(10) )

I the above example, I have a process called "test", I then get the pipe from that process and writes a line to it. In this example the command "pause" with the added line change on the end.

So at least I can get on with my application, and I hope that it helps others as well.

So WriteLine doesn't add a line change? Weird.