Hi gang, I need a little help here. I am creating a Macintosh app on the desktop for my own use. I am making an archive of all the "Spirit of K JAZ" shows by the late Jerry Dean. After the terrestrial radio station went off the air, he and fellow air mate Stan Dunn started streaming the shows on the net for most of the 2000 decade. There are over 800 1-hour shows in this collection. After archiving the first 200 shows, I quickly tired of using individual apps to do the separate steps of photographing the cover, putting in folder, and transferring the data, while keeping the same file name for all of them. So I created a stack which controls several command line executables
I have three executable binaries that I call from this app. imagesnap ffmpeg SOX All of the commands work great by using the shell command in LC, except for the fact that my app waits until some of the commands have finished. In the case of one of them for example, it is importing a audio file from a CD, and turning it into a wave file using *ffmpeg*. ./ffmpeg -i '/Volumes/Audio CD/1 Audio Track.aiff' '/Users/stephenbarncard/Desktop/img/20171113_LIVE_ON_MARz.wav' [ above command on one line ] This takes up to 10 minutes to copy for a 60 minute CD. The ./ at the beginning is the only difference between what I was saying in my shell call from LC and what works in Terminal. The executables live directly adjacent to the live code stack, to simplify addressing. I got about this far with my coding, reading stuff from forums and the dictionary, but I just can't seem to put the right words together. pData is the command that works from the shell. on executeProcess pData put whereAmI() into a; set the defaultFolder to a get "file:xprocess.bat" put pData into URL it open process "file:xprocess.bat" for text write etc.. close executeProcess Does someone out there have a clear example of what I am looking for, using a UNIX executable through *open process *? 1. call the function with parameters 2. allow livecode scripts to continue 3. continuously monitor and display data returned by that function thank you all so much for any and all information, And a happy non-sectarian Christmas to everyone! *Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - * *mixstream.org* <http://mixstream.org> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode