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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: How to start another application within an ADA program?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:31:56 +0100
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:50:15 -0800 (PST), tolkamp wrote:

> Is it possible to start an other apllication (eg Microsoft Word) within an
> ADA program? If so, how do I do it?

1. You can use whatever system calls available. E.g. UNIX's system/exec* or
Windows' CreateProcess. For the latter use Win32 bindings available with
GNAT.

2. A portable way to do it is, already mentioned, GNAT's OS library, or GTK
(Glib). Here is the bindings:

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/gtkada_contributions.htm#10

You can feed the spawned process' input and catch its output directly or
using GTK's text buffers.

I believe that Qt also has some means to spawn processes.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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