Brad Montgomery wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a way to get the output of a linux
program onto a surface? For example, having Firefox run on a square
that you could move around because it is a pygame surface?
Well... anything's possible, right (Fred Brooks says programmers are
optimists...)
Since you're asking about linux, I suppose you "could" lauch the app
from the command line and redirect any standard output to a text file,
whose contents you could periodically read into a string, which could
then be dumped onto a surface.
You "might" also be able to launch your linux program from within your
pythong script using popen and capture any output from that into a
string...
Of course... depending on what you want to do, your mileage may vary.
Sure, it all comes down to inventing a new GUI to run on top of an
existing GUI/windowing system. Think Smalltalk. A console on a modern
graphics based operating system is just a text widget in a window.
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Lenard Lindstrom
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