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OPTIMO · Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

I have some shell scrips that do HBA rescans and a bunch of other things. I built a GUI using Glade so that others would feel more comfortable running my scripts, but now I don't know how to call these scripts from my callbacks.c.

Any ideas?

I went through all the GTK commands and couldn't find anything.

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

It's not GTK that's going to help you, but standard C functions (assuming your'e working in C). In the callback for a button click or whatever you want to launch your command, you can use popen:

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14	FILE fp; gint exit_status; gchar command = "/this/is/the/script"; /* execute command */ fp = popen(command, "r"); if (fp == NULL) { g_print("Error running %s", command); } exit_status = pclose (fp); g_print("Script exited with status %d", exit_status);

That's just off the top of my head so you may have to dink around. Do a google search for popen for more information.