camelweb
17th May 2006 05:21 UTC

Capturing external program's output
Hi,

I have created an NSIS installer. One of its features is an executable I extract and run (during installation) that upgrades the user's database. I do this by calling ExecWait.

Somehow, I would like to capture the output of this executable and show it in the Detail Display - preferably, during the execution.

Can I capture standard output somehow? Or is there some form of inter process communication that I can take advantage of?

Any ideas are appreciated.

Regards,

Camel

Takhir
17th May 2006 07:07 UTC

"standard output" is a feature of console applications, you can use nsExec from NSIS distribution or ExecDos plug-ins.

camelweb
20th May 2006 14:16 UTC

Thanks, that's worked a treat. I missed nsExec in the documentation...