I am porting code from MinGW to MSVC2013/MSVC2015 and found a problem.
QProcess process;
QString program = "cmd.exe";
QStringList arguments = QStringList() << "/K" << "python.exe";
process.startDetached(program, arguments);
When I use MinGW, this code results in command-line window. But when I use MSVC2013 or MSVC2015, the same code results in cmd-process running in background without any windows. Are there any ways to make command-line window appear?
The problem was connected with msvc2015, not with Qt5.8.0. There is the way to escape it. The idea is to use CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE flag.
#include <QProcess>
#include <QString>
#include <QStringList>
#include "Windows.h"
class QDetachableProcess
: public QProcess {
public:
QDetachableProcess(QObject *parent = 0)
: QProcess(parent) {
}
void detach() {
waitForStarted();
setProcessState(QProcess::NotRunning);
}
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
QDetachableProcess process;
QString program = "cmd.exe";
QStringList arguments = QStringList() << "/K" << "python.exe";
process.setCreateProcessArgumentsModifier(
[](QProcess::CreateProcessArguments *args) {
args->flags |= CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE;
args->startupInfo->dwFlags &=~ STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
});
process.start(program, arguments);
process.detach();
return 0;
}
You don't need to use QProcess for this. It's much simpler to just use std::system:
#include <cstdlib>
// then when you want to open a
// detached command prompt:
std::system("cmd");
You can also do things like:
std::system("cd some/path && cmd");
It's standard C++ (from C) so std::system(...) itself will work on any platform, only thing you need to set per platform is the shell command.
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I am a beginner in qt. It would be very helpful if this problem solved.
I would like to use QProcess to execute the file and show the real time output to the QTextviewer.
The file cannot stop running unless you press ctrl c in terminal command line. Otherwise, the file works well on terminal in linux.
The main problem occured was : the process did start by qt, however, I didn't see any output.
I try signal(readyReadStandardOutput) and slot. When I add waitforfinished(), the GUI will freezed.
if(!process)
{
process = new QProcess (this);
}
process -> setWorkingDirectory("mydir");
connect(process, SIGNAL(readyReadStandardOutput()), this, SLOT(logRead()));
connect(process, SIGNAL(readyReadStandardError()), this, SLOT(readError()));
process -> start("./file");
process -> setProcessChannelMode(QProcess::MergedChannels);
if(false == peocess-> waitForStarted())
{
ui -> textBrowser->append("the process cannot be called");
}else{
ui -> textBrowser->append("the process can be called");
}
textBrowser did show "the process can be called".
void Dialog::logRead()
{
QProcess *process = dynamic_cast<QProcess *>( sender() );
if (process){
ui->textBrowser->append( p->readAllStandardOutput() );
}
I dont know why I CANNOT output text in real time, even I didnt get any output!! Any suggestion? thank you!
Your problem, must be in a different part of your app. My minimal reproducible examples works like expected.
#include <QApplication>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QTextBrowser>
#include <QProcess>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);
auto process = new QProcess;
auto view = new QTextBrowser;
process->setWorkingDirectory("C:/Temp");
QObject::connect(process, &QProcess::readyReadStandardOutput, [process,view]() {
auto output=process->readAllStandardOutput();
view->append(output);
});
QObject::connect(process, &QProcess::readyReadStandardError, [process,view]() {
auto output=process->readAllStandardError();
view->append(output);
});
process->start("MyProgram.exe");
process->setProcessChannelMode(QProcess::MergedChannels);
process->waitForStarted();
qDebug() << process->error();
view->show();
return a.exec();
}
I have written a console application for my server. It works very well, I can start it over the terminal and all is okay.
For desktop environments it would be very nice, to set a flag in the settings.ini file of the program to open a MainWindow to show some information of the running console application. The console in the background can be left open. All I need is a window and some SINGAL/SLOTS between the main application running in console and the MainWindow.
How to realize this? I figured out, I have to handle with QApplication and QCoreApplication right?
Simply put this line to your pro file:
CONFIG += console
In Qt5.x from Win7 to Win10 you could do something like this:
//includes
#include <QApplication>
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QString>
#include <QObject>
#include <QDir>
#include <QSettings>
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
//
// Add to project file:
// CONFIG += console
//
The server:
//Here we have the Server class able to send signals
//Server will be used in main.cpp for console
//and/or in MainWindow to handle the signals
class Server : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
Server( QObject *parent = 0 ) : QObject( parent )
{
//do server stuff
//this->setName( "Test" );
//std::cout << this->getName( ) << std::endl;
//std::cout << "Enter URL: << std::endl;
//std::string url;
//std::cin >> url;
//_url = QString::fromStdString( url );
//emit finished();
}
signals:
void finished( );
private:
QString _url;
};
The MainWindow:
//Here is the MainWindow using Server
class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
MainWindow( QWidget *parent = 0 ) : QMainWindow()
{
server = new Server( this ); //use server in hybrid mode (console and gui)
connect( server, SIGNAL(finished()), this, SLOT(close()) ); //establish connection
}
private:
Server *server;
};
The main:
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
QString iniPath = QFileInfo( QDir::fromNativeSeparators(argv[0]) ).absolutePath(); //get the current dir
QSettings settings( iniPath+"/settings.ini", QSettings::IniFormat ); //open ini
bool gui = settings.value( "gui", false ).toBool(); //read ini
if( gui ) //decide
{
#if defined( Q_OS_WIN )
// hide console window, but not in your case
// ::ShowWindow( ::GetConsoleWindow(), SW_HIDE );
#endif
//std::cout will print to the console in the bg like you wished
QApplication a( argc, argv );
MainWindow *w = new MainWindow;
w->show();
int e = a.exec();
delete w; //needed to execute deconstructor
exit( e ); //needed to exit the hidden console
return e;
}
else
{
QCoreApplication a( argc, argv );
Server *instance = new Server; //use server in console only
exit( 0 );
return a.exec();
}
}
I tried it also without the "CONFIG += console", but then you need to redirect the streams and create the console on your own:
#ifdef _WIN32
if (AttachConsole(ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS) || AllocConsole()){
freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stderr);
freopen("CONIN$", "r", stdin);
}
#endif
BUT this only works if you start it through a debugger, otherwise all inputs are directed towards the system too. Means, if you type a name via std::cin the system tries to execute the name as a command. (very strange)
Two other warnings to this attempt would be, that you can't use ::FreeConsole() it won't close it and if you start it through a console the app won't close.
Last there is a Qt help section in QApplication to this topic. I tried the example there with an application and it doesn't work for the GUI, it stucked somewhere in an endless loop and the GUI won't be rendered or it simply crashes:
QCoreApplication* createApplication(int &argc, char *argv[])
{
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
if (!qstrcmp(argv[i], "-no-gui"))
return new QCoreApplication(argc, argv);
return new QApplication(argc, argv);
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
QScopedPointer<QCoreApplication> app(createApplication(argc, argv));
if (qobject_cast<QApplication *>(app.data())) {
// start GUI version...
} else {
// start non-GUI version...
}
return app->exec();
}
So if you are using Windows and Qt simply use the console option, hide the console if you need the GUI and close it via exit.
#include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
#include <QTCore>
#include <QtNetwork>
#include <QDebug>
#define CONNECT(sndr, sig, rcvr, slt) connect(sndr, SIGNAL(sig), rcvr, SLOT(slt))
class mynet : QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
mynet()
{}
void start()
{
CONNECT(tcpServer, newConnection(), this, acceptConnection());
CONNECT(tcpClient, connected(), this, startTransfer());
CONNECT(tcpClient, bytesWritten(qint64), this, updateClientProgress(qint64));
CONNECT(tcpClient, error(QAbstractSocket::SocketError), this, displayError(QAbstractSocket::SocketError));
// start server listening
tcpServer->listen();
while(!tcpServer->isListening());
// make client connection
tcpClient->connectToHost(QHostAddress::LocalHost, tcpServer->serverPort());
}
public slots:
void acceptConnection()
{
tcpServerConnection = tcpServer->nextPendingConnection();
CONNECT(tcpServerConnection, readyRead(), this, updateServerProgress());
CONNECT(tcpServerConnection, error(QAbstractSocket::SocketError), this, displayError(QAbstractSocket));
tcpServer->close();
}
void startTransfer()
{
bytesToWrite = TotalBytes - (int)tcpClient->write(QByteArray(PayloadSize, '#'));
}
void updateServerProgress()
{
bytesReceived += (int)tcpServerConnection->bytesAvailable();
tcpServerConnection->readAll();
if (bytesReceived == TotalBytes)
{
qDebug() << "done";
tcpServerConnection->close();
}
}
void updateClientProgress(qint64 numBytes)
{
// callen when the TCP client has written some bytes
bytesWritten += (int)numBytes;
// only write more if not finished and when the Qt write buffer is below a certain size.
if (bytesToWrite > 0 && tcpClient->bytesToWrite() <= 4*PayloadSize)
bytesToWrite -= (int)tcpClient->write(QByteArray(qMin(bytesToWrite, PayloadSize), '#'));
}
void displayError(QAbstractSocket::SocketError socketError)
{
if (socketError == QTcpSocket::RemoteHostClosedError)
return;
qDebug() << tcpClient->errorString();
tcpClient->close();
tcpServer->close();
}
private:
QTcpServer* tcpServer;
QTcpSocket* tcpClient;
QTcpSocket* tcpServerConnection;
int bytesToWrite;
int bytesWritten;
int bytesReceived;
int TotalBytes;
int PayloadSize;
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
mynet m1;
m1.start();
return a.exec();
}
I get an
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"vtable for mynet", referenced from:
mynet::mynet() in main.o
mynet::~mynet()in main.o.
Please advise what I am doing wrong. Can I not inline the method definitions in the class for some reason in Qt?
You need to add your class to the .pro file
HEADERS += mynet.h
SOURCES += mynet.cpp
so the meta-object compiler can scan them and work out they need moc'ing and generate the relevant stubs.
Assuming that your source file is named foo.cpp, you have to put the following line at the very end:
#include "foo.moc"
This line tells qmake and the VS Qt add-in that the file should be run via moc, and that the generated moc file should be named foo.moc.
You also have problems in the #include lines for Qt headers. I've found that the following work:
#include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
#include <QtNetwork/QTcpServer>
#include <QtNetwork/QTcpSocket>
Make sure to add network to your .pro file. This will create the correct linking to the network library functions.
QT += core network
Two things:
1) You should publicly derive from QObject.
2) Are you moc'ing this file and then compiling and linking the output? If you include the Q_OBJECT macro and don't moc, you will get an error like that.
I am working on building a GUI around a console application. I would like to be able to click a button to run the console app and show the console output inside of the GUI itself. How might I accomplish this? I am working in Linux.
You could also try QProcess. It provides a Qt interface to launching external processes, reading their I/O and waiting, or not, on their completion.
For your purpose, it sounds like you want the process to run asynchronously, so code might look like :
myprocessstarter.h :
#include <QObject>
#include <QProcess>
#include <QDebug>
class MyProcessStarter : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
MyProcessStarter() : QObject() {};
void StartProcess();
private slots:
void readStandardOutput();
private:
QProcess *myProcess;
};
main.cpp:
#include "myprocessstarter.h"
void MyProcessStarter::StartProcess()
{
QString program = "dir";
QStringList arguments;
// Add any arguments you want to be passed
myProcess = new QProcess(this);
connect(myProcess, SIGNAL(readyReadStandardOutput()), this, SLOT(readStandardOutput()));
myProcess->start(program, arguments);
}
void MyProcessStarter::readStandardOutput()
{
QByteArray processOutput;
processOutput = myProcess->readAllStandardOutput();
qDebug() << "Output was " << QString(processOutput);
}
void main(int argc, char** argv)
{
MyProcessStarter s;
s.StartProcess();
}
I wanted to do something similar in one of my applications. I redirected all output from the standard stream (cout) to my console window. To periodically read out the stream contents I use a timer loop. Works fine for me.
StdRedirector.cpp
#include "StdRedirector.h"
QMutex coutMutex;
void outcallback(const char* ptr, std::streamsize count, void* bufferString)
{
string *b = (string *) bufferString;
string t;
for (int i=0; i < count; i++)
{
if (ptr[i] == '\n')
{
t = t + "\n";
} else {
t = t + ptr[i];
}
}
coutMutex.lock();
*b = *b + t;
coutMutex.unlock();
}
void ConsoleWindow::updateTimer(void)
{
coutMutex.lock();
if (bufferString.size() > 0)
{
consoleBox->insertPlainText(QString(bufferString.c_str()));
bufferString.clear();
QScrollBar *sb = consoleBox->verticalScrollBar();
sb->setValue(sb->maximum());
}
coutMutex.unlock();
}
ConsoleWindow::ConsoleWindow(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent)
{
consoleBox = new QTextEdit(this);
consoleBox->setReadOnly(true);
stdRedirector = new StdRedirector<>(std::cout, outcallback, &bufferString);
QVBoxLayout *vb = new QVBoxLayout();
vb->addWidget(consoleBox);
vb->setMargin(0);
vb->setSpacing(0);
setLayout(vb);
QTimer *timer = new QTimer(this);
connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(updateTimer()));
timer->start(100);
}
ConsoleWindow::~ConsoleWindow()
{
delete stdRedirector;
}
StdRedirector.h
#ifndef STD_REDIRECTOR
#define STD_REDIRECTOR
#include <QWidget>
#include <QTextEdit>
#include <QString>
#include <QVBoxLayout>
#include <QTimer.h>
#include <QMutex>
#include <QScrollBar>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
template<class Elem = char, class Tr = std::char_traits<Elem>>
class StdRedirector : public std::basic_streambuf<Elem, Tr>
{
typedef void (*pfncb) ( const Elem*, std::streamsize _Count, void* pUsrData );
public:
StdRedirector(std::ostream& a_Stream, pfncb a_Cb, void* a_pUsrData) :
m_Stream(a_Stream),
m_pCbFunc(a_Cb),
m_pUserData(a_pUsrData)
{
m_pBuf = m_Stream.rdbuf(this);
}
~StdRedirector()
{
m_Stream.rdbuf(m_pBuf);
}
std::streamsize xsputn(const Elem* _Ptr, std::streamsize _Count)
{
m_pCbFunc(_Ptr, _Count, m_pUserData);
return _Count;
}
typename Tr::int_type overflow(typename Tr::int_type v)
{
Elem ch = Tr::to_char_type(v);
m_pCbFunc(&ch, 1, m_pUserData);
return Tr::not_eof(v);
}
protected:
std::basic_ostream<Elem, Tr>& m_Stream;
std::streambuf* m_pBuf;
pfncb m_pCbFunc;
void* m_pUserData;
};
class ConsoleWindow : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
ConsoleWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
~ConsoleWindow();
public slots:
void updateTimer(void);
public:
QTextEdit *consoleBox;
StdRedirector<> *stdRedirector;
string bufferString;
};
#endif
The StdRedirector class is based on code from this forum post: http://www.qtforum.org/article/24554/displaying-std-cout-in-a-text-box.html
Take a look at the popen() function, it might do what you need.
Then you could pass the FILE * to a QTextStream and work in Qt style with it.
I suggest, rather than showing stdout in GUI, having own console output, which essentially means all messages you want to show to users you are sending to your own output.
This way you can have debug messages and such still available from console, wtih potential errors with connections and whatever that can happen and have fully controlled console output in GUI application. Of course this output can also be outputted to stdout so it is visible in console, but it also allows you to append a prefixs like WARNING LOG NOTICE NO_THIS_WENT_WRONG or whatever you want to show to users as your console entry.
I know similar question to this have been asked, but I haven't found an answer that fixes my problem.
I'm adapting some existing Qt code to add server functionality to a program my company uses. To that end I added a QTcpServer object to the existing dialog, call listen() and connect a slot to the newConnection emitter, like:
.h
class QConsole : public QDialog
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
void init();
public slots:
void new_Connection();
private:
QTcpServer m_Server;
}
.cpp
void QConsole::init()
{
m_Server.listen(QHostAddress::Any, 12346);
QDialog::connect(&m_Server, SIGNAL(newConnection()), this, SLOT(new_Connection()));
}
Main is:
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QConsole * _output_window = new QConsole(desktopRect);
_output_window->init();
_output_window->show();
return app.exec();
}
new_Connection() never gets called so I can't see the relevance, but here it is:
void QConsole::new_Connection()
{
}
This works fine in that my program starts listening on the port specified and if I telnet to it a connection of sorts it made, but new_Connection() is never ever ever called!
I've seen posts on this problem dating back to 2005 so it's obviously not a new thing, but what I haven't found is a satisfactory answer to the problem (or any answer actually). This has got everyone at work stumped, even the person that has written a Qt server program. I'm guessing that there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing framework, but I have no idea what it might be.
I have been tearing my hair out for a day and a half over this, and the closes I got to success was using waitForNewConnection() which would actually return me a socket, but when I connected to the readReady() emitter, that was never fired either. So what would prevent these signals never getting called?
Please spare my sanity and help me as much as you can.
Here is a complete working example, tested using MSVC++ 2010.
This listens for a connection on port 12346, replies with "HELLO WORLD" and logs the connection to a list on the dialog.
main.cpp
#include <QtGui>
#include "console.hpp"
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
Console con;
con.show();
return app.exec();
}
console.hpp
#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <QtNetwork>
class Console : public QDialog
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
Console();
public slots:
void connection();
private:
QTcpServer mServer;
QListWidget* mConnList;
};
console.cpp
#include "console.hpp"
Console::Console() :
QDialog(),
mServer(),
mConnList(new QListWidget())
{
if (!mServer.listen(QHostAddress::Any, 12346))
qDebug() << "Error during 'listen'" << mServer.errorString();
connect(&mServer, SIGNAL(newConnection()), this, SLOT(connection()));
QVBoxLayout* mainLayout = new QVBoxLayout();
mainLayout->addWidget(mConnList);
setLayout(mainLayout);
}
void Console::connection()
{
qDebug() << "CONNECTION";
QTcpSocket* skt = mServer.nextPendingConnection();
if (!skt)
return;
mConnList->addItem(QString("%1:%2").arg(skt->peerAddress().toString()).arg(skt->peerPort()));
skt->write("HELLO WORLD!\r\n");
skt->close();
}
test.pro
TEMPLATE=app
CONFIG+=console debug
QT=core gui network
HEADERS=console.hpp
SOURCES=main.cpp console.cpp
Another working example, again on Linux, although I have coded a program using QTcpServer to run on both Linux and Windows before without a problem. If this doesn't work, surely it must be either a Qt installation or OS configuration problem. Either that or a bug in the Qt version.
~/tcp_test$ qmake --version
QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.8.6 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
~/tcp_test$ for file in qconsole.{h,cpp} main.cpp tcp_test.pro ; do echo -e "$file:\n"; cat $file; echo; echo; done
qconsole.h:
#include <QDialog>
#include <QTcpServer>
class QConsole : public QDialog
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
QConsole();
public slots:
void connection();
private:
QTcpServer server;
};
qconsole.cpp:
#include "qconsole.h"
QConsole::QConsole()
{
server.listen(QHostAddress::Any, 12346);
QDialog::connect(&server, SIGNAL(newConnection()), this, SLOT(connection()));
}
void QConsole::connection()
{
qDebug("got connection");
}
main.cpp:
#include <QApplication>
#include "qconsole.h"
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QConsole * window = new QConsole();
window->show();
return app.exec();
}
tcp_test.pro:
QT = core gui network
CONFIG += debug
TARGET = tcp_test
SOURCES = main.cpp qconsole.cpp
HEADERS = qconsole.h
~/tcp_test$ ./tcp_test &
[3] 9784
~/tcp_test$ nc localhost 12346
got connection
^C