[Lazarus] Reading from an external process

[Richard Mace]

Thanks Sven
I've now switched to a memo and thats worked
On 5 Nov 2013 15:33, "Sven Barth" <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  Am 05.11.2013 14:48, schrieb Richard Mace:
>
>  Hi All,
>  I have got the following code from the wiki for creating and reading
> from an external process. Effectively, I want to capture all of the output
> from the process "handle.exe", into a StringList so that I can read it to
> make sure that everything went OK, however, when I run the following code,
> I am getting a "RunError(103) on the line: WriteLn('-- Going to run: ' +
> OurCommand);
>
>  Any ideas what I'm doing wrong please?
>
> Is your application (that one which calls handle.exe) compiled as a GUI
> application or not? (check in the project settings) If it is compiled as a
> GUI application then disable the option and recompile. An additional
> console window should now appear when you run the application from within
> Lazarus in which you'll see your output.
> Reason: on Windows the I/O is closed on startup if the application is
> compiled as a GUI program (Delphi compatible)
> Alternatively you could use a Memo. Either you directly use
> YourMemo.Add('...') or if you want to keep using Writeln, I have a unit
> sent somewhere on the mailing list some days ago that allows you to assign
> a memo or edit to a TextFile so that you could use either Writeln(YourFile,
> '...') or you could override "Output" so that you could keep using
> Writeln('...').
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
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