[Sc-devel] unixCmd exit code printing

[Till Bovermann]

aahh, yes, it waits for the return value... how about using -d option  
in BigHonkingText?

seems to be nice btw. (your extension), wanna make it a quark?

regards
Till

On 27.07.2007, at 13:22, Tom Hall wrote:

> Ah, actually, it looks like systemCmd is not working out for me, as  
> it stops other sclang processes happening while it evaluates, such  
> as r{100.do{|i| i.pl; 0.2.wait}}.play
>
> Any idea why, are the implementations different kind of things?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 27 Jul 2007, at 11:51, Tom Hall wrote:
>
>> Thanks Till, that does the trick.
>>
>> BTW, I see that systemCmd is not mentioned in the String helpfile.
>> Perhaps someone could add a note there about that?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2007, at 10:51, Till Bovermann wrote:
>>
>>> you may just use systemCmd, this does not print the exitCode, but  
>>> returns it as an integer number (which you may or may not ignore :-)
>>>
>>> hope that helps
>>> Till
>>>
>>> On 27.07.2007, at 11:32, Tom Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All
>>>>
>>>> unlike the default behaviour of a shell, unixCmd prints the exit  
>>>> code of the process in the post window (usually RESULT = 0).  
>>>> This can clog up the window the if a large number of commands  
>>>> are being executed.
>>>>
>>>> Could we easily have a flag to turn off this posting behaviour?  
>>>> Something like,
>>>>
>>>> "ls".unixCmd(printExitCode: false)
>>>>
>>>> The printing is called by line 129 in SuperCollider3/Source/lang/ 
>>>> LangPrimSource/PyrUnixPrim.cpp
>>>>
>>>> 	post("RESULT = %d\n", res);
>>>>
>>>> If a flag is not a bad idea, could someone who knows C possibly  
>>>> implement this?
>>>>
>>>> The context is a little SC String method to link SC to the OSX  
>>>> UNIX utility BigHonkingText
>>>> details at www.ludions.com/sc/
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
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