[Lazarus] GUI frontend to a console application

[ik]

It simple, you need to use TProcess (TProcessUTF8 if you must), and
pipes. if you need input as well as output then you need to work with
them both.

The svn integration in Lazarus contain good example on how to do it.
And you can also use my code:
http://ik.homelinux.org/projects/files/mazrim-nx.tar.gz

Ido


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably more related to unix systems... Has anybody got a
> small sample application, some documentation or is a sample included
> in Lazarus that shows how to go about writing a GUI frontend to a
> console application?
>
> For our company I want to implement a GUI app to help them setup a few
> basic things on a Linux system and interact with some console apps.
> Our users are NOT tech-savy, so I need a GUI to help them along.  Any
> idea how I go about this?
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
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