Shell and Stuff

[airedale]

I am writting a program that runs different shell commands. One of the shell commands starts downloading files from a remote location. When you run the shell command the shell pops up and shows the amount of data received. Is there a way to grab that info from the shell and hide the shell and display it on the VB GUI?

Any thoughts on this would be great!

Thanks!

[DevGrp]

Yes its possible. Here is a program I did. It runs the ipconfig command from the command prompt, captures the output and puts it in a textbox.

Its in C#, but it should'nt be a problem to convert.

[airedale]

I really appreciate that, but I can't open up the file because I don't have c# installed...

Also would that have allowed for continuous updating?


Thanks!

[DevGrp]

Use notepad to open the ".cs" files. Also, what do you mean by continous updating?

[airedale]

well the data streams, so it will take from 1 minute to many hours to stream the data - i want to constantly show how the progress is

Also while we are on the topic of shell, I am also having this other problem.

I am running this command:
Shell("c:\replaypc\replaypc " & ipaddress & " -d > text.dat ", AppWinStyle.MaximizedFocus, True)

it is supposed to write the output to the text.dat file. For some reason it is not writting it. Though if I go to the command line and type this in it does!
Do you know why?

[airedale]

I looked through your code... I see the proc...

when I do:

proc = new Process()

I don't know what type of variable to declare proc

[DevGrp]

Here is the vb code:

Dim proc As Process
 
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        proc = New Process()
 
        Dim str As String = Nothing
        Dim sIn As StreamWriter
        Dim sOut As StreamReader
 
        proc.StartInfo.FileName = "ipconfig"
        proc.StartInfo.Arguments = " /all"
        proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
        proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = True
        proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
        proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = True
        proc.Start()
 
        sIn = proc.StandardInput
        sIn.AutoFlush = True
        sOut = proc.StandardOutput
 
 
        sIn.Write(Environment.NewLine)
        sIn.Write("exit" + Environment.NewLine)
        str = sOut.ReadToEnd()
 
        If (Not proc.HasExited) Then
            proc.Kill()
        End If
 
        TextBox2.Clear()
        TextBox2.Text = str
 
        sIn.Close()
        sOut.Close()
End Sub

Dont use the Shell command. Use the process class.

[airedale]

that code looks great, but what about the StreamWriter and StreamReader? It says the two are not defined...

[airedale]

bump

[DevGrp]

They should be. I tried it and it worked.

Copy and paste the code in a button click method.

[airedale]

for some reason I had to type in system.io.streamreader

the just streamreader would not work...

[DevGrp]

Oh, forgot to tell you. You have to put Import System.IO at the top of the program.

[airedale]

Is there a way to send a command to have the window minimized? Also this isn't working exactly as I would like because the vb code waits to do something until after the code is executed... Which means it isn't streaming on the vb app what is happening - like the amount of data being downloaded.