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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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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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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