Re: How to send console progress information to gui
 
On 5/2/13 11:49 AM, mike wrote:
Hi,
I am using java to send a commdline arg 'mklabel ?config hello.o REL3'.
The output that I get is a new line for each element a put the label on.
In my application I want to show the user the progress of the command.
Can I create an event that contains the information for each line and send it to a listener? Or is there a better way?
br,
//mike
Output from console:
mklabel ?config hello.o REL3
Created label "REL3" on "/usr/hw/" version "/main/1".
  Created label "REL3" on "/usr/hw/src" version "/main/2".
  Created label "REL3" on "/usr/hw/src/hello.c" version "/main/3".
  Created label "REL3" on "/usr/hw/src/hello.h" version "/main/1".
You would start a thread to read the data out of the InputStream (which 
you need to do anyway to make a Process work as expected). The thread 
reading the data could send an event anywhere.  If you are updating a UI 
thread, I suggest the following approach:
ProgressTrackerThread.run() will read from InputStream, and when newline 
happens, call "progressUpdated" on a list of Listeners.
Create an abstract EventQueueProgressListener implementation. 
progressUpdated in this impl will be final, and will pass a Runnable to 
the EventQueue, which then calls a different abstract method 
(handleProgressUpdated maybe?).  That way, you're thread-safe on the EDT 
for UI updates.