Accessing/using the terminal in a program?

[bronxbomber92]

How would you call the terminal and then input command into the terminal, using objective-c with cocoa? Like if you pressed a certain button in your program it will call the terminal and input the command for you. Thanks for any help!

[Korrupted]

I believe it's system().

[bronxbomber92]

so what, can you give me a small example accessing a folder? I'm rather new to objective-c... I'm acustom to c++

[Korrupted]

Well you wouldn't see the Terminal window at all by calling system(), but here's a C++ example of how you can use it:

 

#include <iostream>

int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) 
{
system("echo hi");
return 0;
}

 

To use it, you basically just pass a string that contains whatever you want Terminal to do.

[bronxbomber92]

so basically, pesuedo code for going to the folder application would be this:

 if application_is_selected then
system("cd /applications")
end

Sorry if that pesuedo code is a little off...

[Korrupted]

Sounds about right.

[bronxbomber92]

Ahh! Thanks a lot. This will b very helpful, since I am looking into a compiler on mac that compiles programs for the Playstation Portable (more info on that at ps2dev.org). So the only difficult part would be the file browsing on selecting you code and everything.

 

Acourse this would included a GUI

 

So, now I need to learn that, and become a bit more familiar with objective-c and cocoa, and I'm on my way