Re: Putting A GUI Onto A Command Line Program With AutoIt3

Hi Jim,

In looking through some Python info this morning, I saw a Python module that 
may do what you want.  That, of course, depends on your interest in using 
Python.  If you are interested try googling:
"python subprocess module"

You should find several relevant links.

I am not certain, but it looks like you create a Popen object, which looks to 
be sort of a process object.  You can specify pipes for standard input, output 
and error as well as communicate with the child process, wait for it to return, 
poll it to see if it is still alive, etc.

I think I will tinker a bit with it and post something in a few days on what I 
find.

Richard

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Homme, James 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:40 AM
  Subject: RE: Putting A GUI Onto A Command Line Program With AutoIt3


  Hi Tyler,

  Are you saying that once I find stdin and stdout that I just input my 
commands into stdin and  look for the responses in stdout? And that's it?

   

  Thanks.

   

  Jim

   

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  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
  Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:01 PM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Putting A GUI Onto A Command Line Program With AutoIt3

   

  Hello james,

  AutoIt sounds fine. what you'll have to do is retrieve the handles and write 
to the stin and read from the program's stdout. You can send more than one 
command through stdin, and that would be the same as typing it at a console.

  HTH,

   

  On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Homme, James wrote:





  Hi Tyler,

  Thanks for saying this. Now I'm remembering that languages like Perl can run 
another program and read their output that normally would go to the screen. To 
interpret what you say, then, it sounds like I'd want to find a similar 
function in AutoIt.

   

  If I'm right, my next question is that if the program is still running, would 
I need to figure out a way to send it more commands? If so, how would my 
program find where to send them? Is it possible to do that without displaying 
the input to the screen?

   

  Let me explain what I'm up to here. I found a chess playing engine called 
Crafty, which is one of the best free chess engines, as far as I have read. 
Anyway, I'd like to see if I can make an accessible GUI and use that to control 
the chess engine. I know about Winboard for JAWS. I'm not a C programmer at 
all, and I thought that maybe I could make a GUI using AutoIt3. If this isn't 
the best way to go, I'd entertain doing it in some other language, but I had to 
pick something, so I picked AutoIt.

   

  Thanks.

   

  Jim

   

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  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
  Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:40 AM
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Putting A GUI Onto A Command Line Program With AutoIt3

   

  hello jim,

  What you'll have to do is capture the stdin and stdout handles, and possibly 
stderr to monitor for input and allow for writing to the program.

  HTH,

   

  On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Homme, James wrote:






  Hi,

  I don't understand how this kind of thing works in the first place, so I'm 
not sure what to ask. I'll just start at the beginning.

   

  When any program runs another one in Windows, and it wants to see its output, 
where does it look?

   

  Thanks.

   

  Jim

   

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