On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Alan Mazer <alan.s.ma...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> On 6/5/2014 12:20 AM, Gavin Lambert wrote: > >> Quoth Abhinav singh: >> >>> I am running a gtk application from another program lets call it "main >>> program". This program is command driven and proceed according to >>> command given to it. What my problem is when the command which runs my >>> gtk application is given into "main program" the terminal gets hang up >>> till the application window is closed then only my "main program" is >>> able to process further command given to it. >>> >>> Is there any way to run my gtk application in entire new terminal or >>> without terminal associated with it so that my "main program" will be >>> able to process the next command in the list with gtk application >>> running in parallel? >>> >> It sounds like you're asking how to run a GTK app from a shell script >> without waiting for it to end. >> >> You do that just like you'd do it for anything else -- you run it as a >> background task (usually by adding & at the end of your command line). >> > > > Sounds like a place for fork/exec. Your main app forks then execs the gtk > app. I'm assuming this is running in a *nix environment, although there > are similar constructs on Windows. > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list > Yes, this is running in a nix* environment. Can you please provide me link of tutorial related to fork/exec or some code structure which implement something similar to what you are saying. Thanks, Abhinav
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