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Niyojan
Niyojan

Reputation: 584

Creating and executing batch file and linking the output to a progress bar

I am creating a Java swing GUI, which takes few parameters from user (through text fields) and stores them in a string called finalstring. This string is basically a command, which runs an ".exe" file with few parameters. Now i want to create a batch file(start.bat on my desktop), in which i want to copy this string. Finally i want to execute this batch file. Along with the execution, i also want to store the output of this batch file. Also, the batch file executes certain process, which i want to link with progress bar, is this possible?(process running in batch file, to be linked to java swing's progress bar?).

I did all above things using python and tkinter as GUI, but during the storage of output of batch file, my tkinter gui used to hang(not responding), so i am switching to java swings GUI. I searched most of the online threads, but nothing is going in my head(created few java programs also, but the batch file is not being created), so i want help, i appreciate your effort to go through this thread.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 792

Answers (1)

trashgod
trashgod

Reputation: 205875

You can execute your batch using ProcessBuilder, as shown here. You can append() lines from the combined output stream to a JTextArea, as shown here.

I'm not sure you can usefully display progress in a JProgressBar without knowing more about the granularity of the process.

Upvotes: 1

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