Hello everyone,

I would like to capture of Ming-Ruby in a Ruby String/StringIO.
I tried the following w/o success:

tmp = $stdout
flash = $stdout = StringIO.new
m.output
$stdout = tmp

The low level C output methods doesnt understand about
$stdout and keeps dumping bytes to the standard output.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.
George.


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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:22:19 +0900, George Moschovitis <gm@navel.gr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I would like to capture of Ming-Ruby in a Ruby String/StringIO.
> I tried the following w/o success:
> 
> tmp = $stdout
> flash = $stdout = StringIO.new
> m.output
> $stdout = tmp
> 
> The low level C output methods doesnt understand about
> $stdout and keeps dumping bytes to the standard output.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> George.
> 
> --
> www.navel.gr | tel: +30 2106898050 | fax: +30 2106898437
> 
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> have fun: http://www.joy.gr
> 
> 
Well this idea is a hack obviously but have you tried:

# mingout.rb
...
ming.output

# mingin.rb
m = IO::popen("mingout.rb")
data = m.read

The massive downside to this is that it requires two programs, and I
am sure there is
a better way, but it should work

Well i dont want 2 programs...
I dont want ot save to a file with m.save('filename') and use File.read
to get
the data either, any other solution?

-g.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:37:19 +0900, George  Moschovitis
<george.moschovitis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well i dont want 2 programs...
> I dont want ot save to a file with m.save('filename') and use File.read
> to get
> the data either, any other solution?
> 
> -g.
> 
> 
Well I downloaded the ming source, and looked at the code for the
output method. It uses putchar() directly. You'd probably have to
patch the ming source and create a method that could use fputc( ) and
took a FILE*  or something similiar (suitably wrapped up in a ruby
object) as an argument. Sorry