johnpitcairn

So here I was hoping I could get away with using mxj syscommand to replace the shell and findfolder objects for username, prefs path discovery and folder creation in a Universal Binary. No such luck.

mxj syscommand isn't sending anything out the STDOUT or STDERR outlets on Intel in the UB standalone or in Max. Any of the "ls" examples in the helpfile will illustrate this. MacBook Pro 2GHz, OS X 10.4.6, fresh Max install.

My Java chops probably aren't remotely good enough to figure out why, and the MacBook is not mine (to do extensive testing on) - would anyone care to verify and perhaps assist?

ub-mxj-syscommand-stdoutstderr-no-good-on-intel

Workaround for the moment - I'm just wanting the user name to identify the prefs folder - is to "getenv USERNAME" and parse the output.

Stuff that doesn't require STDOUT works fine, ie "exec mkdir".

> Workaround for the moment - I'm just wanting the user name to identify the prefs folder - is to "getenv USERNAME" and parse the output.

> Stuff that doesn't require STDOUT works fine, ie "exec mkdir".

... (many other values available, see content of System.getProperties())

Hi,
> Workaround for the moment - I'm just wanting the user name to identify the prefs folder - is to "getenv USERNAME" and parse the output.
>
> Stuff that doesn't require STDOUT works fine, ie "exec mkdir".

In Java, do
System.getProperty("user.home")
System.getProperty("user.name")
... (many other values available, see content of System.getProperties())

These 2 solutions seems very interesting. Though, as I'm new to java, I have no luck with implementing them... Any patches to share ?

I'm stuck on the same thing - wanting to get Spotlight search results onto Java-land - and i sense (i have these powers see..) that the commands are running but nothing comes back (using either getInputStream() or getErrorStream(), as you say).

One idea might be to try and pipe the output somewhere else, that works - but my knowledge of this stuff is limited - so it might be fun!

Anyway, i'll report back if i crack it...

(oh, where's this "ls example"? I've been struggling for code to steal... ;)

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UB: mxj syscommand STDOUT/STDERR no good on Intel