Hollywood forums

I've two proposal to enhance the Execute() command:
1. Give the possibility to capture directly into Hollywood the executed program output
captured_output = Execute(program_name)

2. Implement the possibility to attach a callback for every line captured from the executed command

I don't know if this is easy or not to implement but could be really usefull, for example when launching a program that do long tasks and print out the progresses of the elaboration (encoders, archiver, and so on are good examples)

Agreed as I'm currently redirecting the output from a called program to a text file, then reading the text file back in to see what the ouput was.

And another example of use would be that every now and then in Christiandevs.com they are talking of community project, but problem is one programs C, one Java, while another Blitz and me Hollywood. What i have been thinking is that if Hollywood could return return value of execute, then that would give possiblity to make for example sports game. Each community member who wishes to participate would make one sports challenge with whatever language they wish and then Hollywood would just start their challenge and after challenge ends, points would be returned and next challenge (execute) started.

This would surely be nice but I'm afraid that this could rather be complicated too implement

Andreas wrote:This would surely be nice but I'm afraid that this could rather be complicated too implement

The hope will never die
This could let us implement nice apps saving us to write tons of code