Hi All,
I finallly found some time to revisit something I was working on last year: Running bash and python scripts inside a terminalview. Thanks to some help from Bruce Steers, I have a simple working app. Nothing fancy but I am using it to experiment with terminalview. One scenario is a button on the form that will launch a specific script. If I hit the button again and the script is already running I get a "terminal already in use" error. Looking at the wiki, I don't see how I would check if the terminal is being used. I guess I could kill the script and restart but I'm not sure if that's a good idea. Can someone point me in the right direction?

use the Process of the Shell or Exec commmand.
/comp/gb/process - Gambas Documentation

eg..


Then Process.State can be checked


Note if you are running bash you cannot tell if the bash shell is running a process.  from the TerminalViews perspective bash is the process that is always running until you exit.
It's only possible if the terminal is running commands directly and not using a bash shell.

BruceSteers said

use the Process of the Shell or Exec commmand.
/comp/gb/process - Gambas Documentation

eg..

Code (gambas)

1. Public hProc As Process
2.  
3. Public Sub RunCommand()
4.  
5.  hProc = TerminalView1.Shell("the-command")
6.  
7. End
8.  
9.  

Then Process.State can be checked

Code (gambas)

1. If hProc.State = Process.Running Then
2.   Message("Process already running")
3.   Return
4. Endif
5.  
6.  

Note if you are running bash you cannot tell if the bash shell is running a process.  from the TerminalViews perspective bash is the process that is always running until you exit.
It's only possible if the terminal is running commands directly and not using a bash shell.

Thanks Bruce. I'll try this with the terminalview snippet you gave me last year.