On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:23:43AM -0700, Deependra Shekhawat wrote: > I am developing a application where-in I have to > display the output of the command "tail -f > /var/log/messages" into a text view. > Now the problem is I know system() to execute the > command but how do I re-direct the output of the > command into Textbuffer so textview can display it. > Once I do the above I also want the data displayed to > be dynamically change when the file data increases > (note I am using tail -f).
Scrap it, create a GIOChannel instead, plug it into the main loop waiting on poll-in (i.e. G_IO_IN), and add the new data to the text buffer in the callback function (more GIOChannel discussion can be found in the list archives). Yeti -- That's enough. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
