how to execute external process better than wxExecute

[Jacek Poplawski]

I execute external process this way:

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wxArrayString output;
wxExecute(command, output);

however, I have problem with it when I want to call:

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something >output

I need this output data, I tried wxExecute to achieve that but it's very very slow.
The output data is decoded photography in uncompressed format and it's about 60 megabytes.

It works correctly with:

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system("something >output")

but it's not very portable - on Windows it opens terminal window, and I don't want it

how to achieve it with wxExecute correctly?

[doublemax]

I've never used this myself, but from looking at the docs, these methods seems to do what you need:
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxp ... ssredirect
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxp ... nputstream

Also, check the "exec" sample.

[Jacek Poplawski]

I tried to use this way:

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std::string command = std::string(DCRAW_EXECUTABLE) + " -w -c -6 -o 4 -W " + f + " >abc ";

wxProcess* process = wxProcess::Open(wxString::FromAscii(command.c_str()));

wxInputStream* input = process->GetInputStream();

and I found that:

1) InputStream "dies" somehow after reading part data I got LastRead smaller than expected, don't know what to do with that

2) when I omit ">abc" part in the command, the called application (in this case dcraw) thinks that the output is directed to terminal, that's why I use dummy ">abc", I wonder how does it work, why I can redirect this output to InputStream?

[PB]

I also have no experience with capturing process output, but ...
A stupid question: Have you checked out the exec sample bundled with wxWidgets to see how the output capturing is done there? Or is it done there the way that was uselessly slow?

What compiler and version of wxWidgets do you use? But this bug is probably not related to your speed problems anyway.

[Jacek Poplawski]

I fixed the problem with read with following code:

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        int p = 0;

        while (p < w * 6)
        {
            input->Read(buffer + p, w * 6 - p);

            p += input->LastRead();

            if (p < w * 6)
            {
                std::cout << "wait for more data" << std::endl;
                wxThread::Sleep(10);
            }
        }