Can Director read from standard out?

[Mea]

Hi! I've created a GUI in Director that launches a Windows application.
The application opens up its own Java "green screen" window and writes
some status messages to standard out.

Can Director read from standard out? If so, how can I capture those
status messages back into the GUI?

** Mary Ellen :-)

[Andrew Morton]

> Hi! I've created a GUI in Director that launches a Windows application.

> The application opens up its own Java "green screen" window and writes
> some status messages to standard out.

Can you also send those messages to a file? Then you can read the file with
Director using an xtra (e.g. fileIO).

Andrew

[Mea]

I had suggested this to my client, but he is concerned about security
issues associated with writing files to a user's disk.

He asked if I could use OLE or ActiveX. Could this work? If so, then
is there a good tutorial that could teach me how to work with OLE or
ActiveX? (I've never done this before!)

Thanks!!

** Mary Ellen :-)

Andrew Morton wrote:

>>Hi! I've created a GUI in Director that launches a Windows application.
>> The application opens up its own Java "green screen" window and writes
>>some status messages to standard out.

>
>
> Can you also send those messages to a file? Then you can read the file with
> Director using an xtra (e.g. fileIO).
>
> Andrew
>