Re: Launching Terminal Application
Re: Launching Terminal Application
- Subject: Re: Launching Terminal Application
- From: mw <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:14:25 -0500
Ahh, okay. It's amazing how that little dash made the difference between the
program working and not (well, I guess semicolons are infamous for doing
that too ;-) ). I wasn't sure whether or not to add the dash, and it didn't
specify in the documentation if I should or not.
Thanks for the help! Now I can finally begin to write my *real* program :-).
mw
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If you run top manually just as you are running it here (top ln0) you'll
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see it still goes into interactive mode as it's ignoring your argument.
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Interactive mode requires a terminal with which top can communicate, and
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a pipe isn't one of them, hence the error.
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Instead, try
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[taskCalledTop setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"-l1"]];
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to get one sample from top, without requiring a terminal top knows.
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Bryan
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On Nov 29, 2002 23:49, mw stated:
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> Hey all,
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> I based this little bit of "sample code" off of an Apple code example in the
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> dev docs. It is just supposed to load up 'top' from the command-line, and
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> then pipe the output back into the cocoa program and display it in an
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> NSTextView. But it doesn't work. I get an error that says "Error opening
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> terminal: unknown." I have no idea what I am doing wrong. Here is the code.
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