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Erfan Tavakoli
Erfan Tavakoli

Reputation: 356

Run another executable in my Qt app

I wrote two Qt applications. One is the main and the other is a side way.

I am running Linux. I read about QProcess so I wrote this code:

 QApplication a(argc, argv);
    MainWindow w;

    w.show();
    QProcess P(&w);
    QString programPath;
    programPath=
    "/Documents/Qt/test1-build-desktop-Qt_4_8_1_in_PATH__System__Release/test1";
    P.start(programPath);

    return a.exec();

However, nothing happens and just my main app (w) runs.

What is my fault? Please help me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9671

Answers (3)

Erfan Tavakoli
Erfan Tavakoli

Reputation: 356

My fault was in the path to executable.

I edit it, very simple and got it work.

QApplication a(argc, argv);
MainWindow w;
w.show();
QProcess P(&w);
QString programPath;
programPath=
    "/home/erfan/Documents/Qt/test1-build-desktop- Qt_4_8_1_in_PATH__System__Release/test1";
P.start(programPath);
return a.exec();

And it work properly.

Another way is to put the executable directly in root:

(/ somthings)

Upvotes: 1

UmNyobe
UmNyobe

Reputation: 22920

the issue is that P.start(programPath); is a non blocking operation. Furthermore, the application output is redirected , and can be accessible from the Qprocess object only.

Edit:

It seems that the path to the executable is incorrect. Anything which starts with "/" will be considered an absolute path.

You probably need to write a QObject subclass to monitor the process you started. This object will catch process signals as kassak pointed out.

class ProcessMonitor : public QObject {
   Q_OBJECT

public slots:

void notifyStart();

void handleError( QProcess::ProcessError error );

void notifyStop(int exitCode, QProcess::ExitStatus ex);
}

In each slot you can just print a message. Then you can do the connections

ProcessMonitor montinor;
QObject::connect(&P,SIGNAL(error(QProcess::ProcessError)), 
      &monitor,SLOT(handleError( QProcess::ProcessError error )) );

Upvotes: 3

tomxey
tomxey

Reputation: 92

You can use 

#include <cstdlib>
std::system("/path/to/executable &");

Upvotes: -1

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