[mxcantor]

I am wondering how one accesses the unix CLI tools from a Cocoa or Java application, I am trying to build a gui wrapper for some tools as a way to start learning cocoa (in java or obj.-c)

-max

[The DJ]

Originally posted by mxcantor:
I am wondering how one accesses the unix CLI tools from a Cocoa or Java application, I am trying to build a gui wrapper for some tools as a way to start learning cocoa (in java or obj.-c)

-max

Nicer includes the code these days. Simply open it up and look at the ShellAccess class. It's actually quite easy. The processing of the returned strings is often the biggest problem.

DJ

[IamBob]

You can find Nicer here, btw.

[Dalgo]

If you wish to put a pretty GUI onto some command line apps one thing to look at, since most of them are GPL'd, is getting the source and building a full-fledged GUI app with some of the code for the CLI app at it's core. If the CLI app is written in C then it isn't too hard to do since Objective C is 100% compatible with C. The only catch is that you must release the code that you write. (Because of the GPL.)