Capturing/piping output

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I'd like to have the output from my console app show up immediately in an editor window when I run from inside the IDE. Dev-C++ doesn't seem to have this feature.

What I can do is pipe the output to a file using '>' and keep that file open in the editor, which automatically reloads it whenever it's modified. However, this doesn't work when running my app from the IDE. If I put "> out" in the parameter dialog, the pipe character gets passed to my app as a parameter instead of being recognized as a pipe.

What can I do here?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

some rough ideas ..

do you mean displaying console content in an external editor ... or in the Dev-Cpp internal editor ??

starting first with launching console_output.txt in an external editor (e.g. notepad.exe) ..

within your code .. embed command line .. something like this ..

system("notepad.exe <path_to_file>\\console_output.txt");

and if you build up console_output.txt to reflect the console content this will come up in the notepad editor (or any other editor of your choosing)

...

or instead of .. cout << "Hello World!" << endl;

use .. system("ECHO Hello World!");

...

the syntax "<", ">" or ">>" or "<<" can also be used freely inside the system(); line

...

another experiment .. to now open the console_output file ..in a Dev-Cpp internal editor window

I first tried this piping to console_output.cpp (the cpp extension to associate with Dev-Cpp)..

system("C\\Dev-Cpp\\devcpp.exe  console_output.cpp");

note:- the use of "\&quot; escape character in front of every backslash

but this command opened a second instance of Dev-Cpp ...

the solution was much simpler .. just use ..

system("console_output.cpp");

and this opened a new internal editor window in Dev-Cpp with content of console_output.cpp

I'm sure you can refine all this ..

...

ideas on use of system (); drawn from this earlier thread .. by Zero

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1653229http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1653229

DL

[Nobody/Anonymous]

typo error above ..

system("C\\Dev-Cpp\\devcpp.exe console_output.cpp");

should read (with "C:\&quot;)..

system("C:\\Dev-Cpp\\devcpp.exe console_output.cpp");

DL

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I'd like to be able to do it without modifying my code

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Q. do you want to launch console output in external or internal editor window?

Q. how do you now pipe the output to (say) the console_output.txt other than by modifying your code?
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o.k. .. so here here is another approach

assuming you have created console_output.txt .. in same location as your cpp code

you can "break in" to Dev-Cpp by creating a batch file to be placed in C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\

here is the batch file ..

///////////////////////////////////////////////////

:: .. start of batch file named g++.bat
:: .. stored in <Dev-Cpp>\bin\

@ECHO ON

type console_output.txt > console_output.cpp

console_output.cpp

@g++ %*

:: .. end of batch file

///////////////////////////////////////////////////

save this as g++.bat in <Dev-Cpp>\bin\ .. in same location as g++.exe

now go to Dev-Cpp | Tools | Compiler Options | Programs ..

and in the g++: field .. change g++.exe to g++.bat

now .. if you have already created console_output.txt ..when you run your program a new Dev-Cpp editor window will be launched with content of console_output.cpp displayed .. note use of *.cpp extension to associate with Dev-Cpp editor.

DL

[Nobody/Anonymous]

sorry .. correction .. in above batch file you will need to give the <full path> to the console_output.cpp file you create ..

@ECHO ON
cd /d C:\&lt;path>\ console_output.cpp
@g++ %*

DL