Hi guys! Ok this is doing my head in. I'm trying to get a message on the form load telling me what the current status of expressvpn is. From a terminal; i can type in expressvpn status. Is there any way of getting the status in a message box in Gambas 3?

I'd appreciate any help.

She'll or Exec



Some software (like ffmpeg) demand more of a terminal and just won't work with Shell or Exec if there's no process handler.

For these we need to do it through an input/output handler.

 If your using this at startup that may be your problem.  I ran into the same problem when I was making a program to let me know if there were updates available . It just would not work correctly and never showed that updates were available. It worked fine through the IDE but not in practice. I figured it out and had to put a delay (Sleep) in the program so that it wouldn't start until the internet connection was established.  Once I did that the program worked as expected. BTW I used Shell to run the command. Hope that helps.

hey bruceSteers! That worked perfectly. You must have been coding for AGES!!! I aspire to be you.

theyikes said

hey bruceSteers! That worked perfectly. You must have been coding for AGES!!! I aspire to be you.

What old and living on an island? Hahahahhaaaaah hahahaaahaha  

thatbruce said

theyikes said

hey bruceSteers! That worked perfectly. You must have been coding for AGES!!! I aspire to be you.

What old and living on an island? Hahahahhaaaaah hahahaaahaha  

I'm pretty sure he means dashing and supremely handsome  

 What's wrong with living on an island? We are all very nice, you know!!!