Console output #702
Description
Greetings,
This is not an issue with Netradiant per se, however I'm curious to know how tools like (mbspc.exe/bspc.exe), qmap2.exe, etc. sends stuff to the console in your application, because I've been attempting to implement that into a WPF application I've been making that uses XAML and PowerShell that helps orchestrate the process of
compiling and packaging a map
I'm not trying to build something as complicated as Netradiant, however, I want to use PowerShell to wrap and log all of the things I'm doing to a particular map, or multiple. Being able to redirect the standard output or error output from these tools has crashed with virtually every (attempt/approach) I've made.
I even took some time to try out various other approaches that Microsoft Copilot suggested.
So like, if I run something like this:
$process = Start-Process -FilePath $Filepath -ArgumentList $ArgumentList -NoNewWindow -RedirectStandardOutput "output.txt" -RedirectStandardError "error.txt" -PassThru
$process.WaitForExit()
$output = Get-Content "output.txt"
$xerror = Get-Content "error.txt"
...that works, but the process has to complete before I can access or see any of that data.
But as soon as I try an approach like this...
$process = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
$process.StartInfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$process.StartInfo.FileName = $Filepath
$Process.StartInfo.Arguments = $ArgumentList
$process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
$process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
$process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = $true
$process.EnableRaisingEvents = $true
$process.add_OutputDataReceived({
param($sender, $args)
if ($args.Data -ne $null) {
Write-Host $args.Data
}
})
$process.add_ErrorDataReceived({
param($sender, $args)
if ($args.Data -ne $null) {
Write-Host "ERROR: " + $args.Data
}
})
$process.Start()
$process.BeginOutputReadLine()
$process.BeginErrorReadLine()
$process.WaitForExit()
...the process does something, but it locks up my console host and doesn't return anything to the screen, so I have to terminate the console host.
But I can see very clearly if I build the map using Netradiant, it updates the information on the fly.
Perhaps you could offer some insight...?