how to make terminal prompt messages? - c++

I have a image processing project in C++ using opencv. The program runs correctly and I get the desired output. However, I have some messages that I print out using the cout command. When I run the program using the terminal (./myprogram) the messages are displayed correctly. When I double click the executable file I get only the output (in my case a new video is created) But I do get the messages. How do I get the program to automatically prompt the messages when it is not run from the terminal.
PS: I use ubuntu 14.04

Create a script like this, lets call it run.sh:
#!/bin/sh
cd work_dir
./myProgram
read -r -p "Press any key..." key
Then do:
xterm -e run.sh
and make your desktop shortcut run this command instead of the program directly.

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C++ executable, sh 1:not found

I created a c++ programm that works with ros. The first step would be to open a roscore in a terminal and move on from there. I do so with system("roscore &");
I compiled my file and can run it just fine with ./file.
However, I want to be able to run it as an application (double click). I created a .desktop file and the program shows up in my application list. When i start it though, all I get is a terminal that opens with the message
sh: 1: roscore: not found
etc.
The same applies for the roslaunch commands. I also fork and exec a roslaunch command, which does not work as well.
I tried system("ls"); which worked. All cout messages work as well.
Any idea what is wrong here?
roscore executable is not located in std paths (/bin:/usr/bin:). Use the absolute path - system("/path/to/roscore &")

Stop error output in C++ when making new folder

I am using C++ on Ubuntu. I have been using the command:
system("mkdir new_folder");
to make a new folder called new_folder. However, if that folder already exists, C++ outputs an error message (and continues to run afterwards).
Is there a way to stop the error message from printing out?
For this particular command use mkdir -p new_folder.
Generally, you want to fork your process and on one of the branches redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null or similar then do exec to replace the process with the new one.

Try to execute command line codes from c++ linux

I tried the following code, to communicate with the command line from c++ code.
#include<iostream>
#include<cv.h>
int main()
{
system("gnome-terminal");
system("cd");
}
The gnome-terminal command is executing fine. After I close the terminal, when am expecting the cd to execute, however, is not happening. Could you please help me and point out the reason? Thanks. I was expecting the function to make the cmd go down to the home directory
, but it did not. am working in linux
I tried it even by removing gnome. simple cd is not working. am I doing something rong>?
If I try ls, it seems to be working fine!
My main aim is to open a new terminal, and execute commands on that new terminal through the present program that opened the new terminal. Could you please tell me how I can achieve this??
If you want to run a program and wait for it to finish before executing next line, take a look at this page and example code here: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/03/c-process-control-functions/
But if you want to run gnome-terminal and execute a command in newly created window, do this:
system("gnome-terminal -x sh -c 'cd /tmp ; ls -la'");
The system function creates a shell child process to execute the specified command.
cd is a shell command which changes the current working directory of that shell process only.
So the child's cd probably works fine, but it has no effect on your C++ program, which is a different process.
Instead, you probably want to look at the Linux system call chdir.
Thanks for your help!! This command worked perfectly fine from this link
https://superuser.com/questions/198015/open-gnome-terminal-programmatically-and-execute-commands-after-bashrc-was-execu
gnome-terminal -x sh -c 'command1; command2; exec bash'
and I entered the respective commands in the new window. But to change the working directory in the shell am working o, I haven't still figured that out.

Async execution with WxWidgets

I am developing an engineering program with WxWidgets and Codeblocks on Windows that dependent some Bash scripts.
I want to run the program with a seperate Bash window not Windows Command Prompt (to print out colored outputs to Bash console).
Is there any EASY way to run commands asynchronously with WxWidgets, because the samples that came with Wx-2.8 is contains 1231 lines of code and i dont have much more time.
wxShell(_("bash --login -i")); // This locks the program until bash window closed
wxShell(_("bash -c grep bla bla")); //This works great but on CMD but
// I want to run on bash.exe like that
wxShell(_("egrep bla bla"));
You need the function wxExecute with with flag wxEXEC_ASYC. Something like:
wxExecute(_("bash --login -i"), wxEXEC_ASYNC);
should do what you need. If you want to redirect input and output then you will also need wxProcess.

Execute shell command in c++

I have a question regarding executing shell commands in c++. I'm building an application in winforms, vs 2008. My application has a button, when clicked should decode a binary file to a .csv file. I can decode files by first going to the right directory (cd Test_Copy2) and then execute a command in the command prompt (java -jar tool.jar -b x.fit x.csv). I tried a lot of different stuff but unfortunately got none to work!
I tried using:
system, _popen, ShellExecute(NULL, L"open", L"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe ", L"java -jar Tool.jar -b x.fit x.csv", L"C:\\Test_Copy2", SW_SHOWNORMAL)
Can anyone please provide me with an example on how to do that? I dont know where I'm going wrong, most of the time the command prompt opens but no command is executed!
If you really want to run the jar in a cmd.exe instance, you need to add one of the correct command line switches to cmd.exe for it to work the way you want it to:
/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
/K Carries out the command specified by string but remains
For instance, your command string should be:
C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c java -jar Tool.jar -b x.fit x.csv
You can use the system() function to execute shell commands.
For example:
system("DIR") executes the DIR command in the CMD shell. The default directory at the start is the directory you're .exe file is located.
'system("PAUSE")` executes the PAUSE command.
The command/s you wannt to execute should be passed as a constant string to the function.
Edit:
For you paritcular program the syntax (IMO) would be:
system("java -jar Tool.jar -b x.fit x.csv")