Re: Runtime.getRuntime.exec() without exiting the main program

From:
knguyen <nguyen.h.khanh@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:53:32 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<cc0e83e7-a653-4204-aabd-8dd3cff22ed4@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 13, 2:18 pm, Daniele Futtorovic
<da.futt.newsLOVELYS...@laposte.net> wrote:

On 2008-02-13 19:16 +0100, Andrea Francia allegedly wrote:

knguyen wrote:

Hi all,

I am having a problem using Runtime.getRuntime.exec(). My codes are as
follow

import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(aCommand);
    while (true) {}
}

}

for some reason, the command is not executed until the program exits.
This causes trouble only in Windows because I tested with Linux and it
works fine.

Thanks you


Try this:

import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(aCommand);
    p.waitFo*t*();
}
}


:-)

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Process.html#waitFor()>


Thank you. I forgot to mention I also tried it but I'd like to have
both running. I am trying to invoke a media player, so I would like my
application to do something else while the media is running.

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