Command line progress

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quantum1976
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Command line progress

Post by quantum1976 »

First let me say that this is a great tool, very flexible.

I wanted to create my own UI based imaging tool to perform some of the custom tasks I require. To do this I used the command line version of USB Image Tool (usbitcmd.exe). My plan is to use a HTA/VBScript program to launch the command line version and then capture the output to update a progress bar.

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	Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
	Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("usbitcmd.exe r 2440 usb.img /i /d")
	Do While oExec.Status = 0
		strTempLine = oExec.stdout.readline
		if instr(strTempLine, "%") > 0 then
			intCurrentProg = cint(mid(strTempLine, instr(strTempLine, "%") - 3, 3))
			progressBar.Value = intCurrentProg
		end if		
	Loop
I've used this method with other command line tools (ImageX) and it works fine. The problem I'm having is that I don't see any of the output from usbitcmd.exe until after it completes imaging. To test this I launched it from a console window and redirected the output to a text file (usbitcmd.exe r 2440 usb.img /i /d > stdout.txt). When I run this, the text file remains empty until after the imaging completes.

Is there any way I can capture the imaging progress while it is running to show the user how much is left?


Thanks,

Rich
Alex
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Re: Command line progress

Post by Alex »

Hm, never tested that myself. I'm using plain C printf command for output here + SetConsoleCursorPosition. Don't know if it has anything to do with that. Also I'm not sure with the output piping. Maybe the file is locked until the usbitcmd.exe process finished.
quantum1976
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Re: Command line progress

Post by quantum1976 »

Thanks for the quick reply. I did a little checking and it seems that the output can't be redirected until a carriage return and/or line feed is sent.

Would it be possible to update the program to add another optional parameter that would scroll the output by adding a carriage return-line feed to each percentage update?

The Microsoft Imagex program (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... s.10).aspx) that I referred to earlier does this. The /scroll optional parameter (e.g. Images /apply /scroll) does this so the progress can be redirected to another program.


Thanks,
Rich
Alex
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Re: Command line progress

Post by Alex »

Thanks for checking that. I think I can implement it with the next version.
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Re: Command line progress

Post by Alex »

implemented with version 1.60 (command line tool)
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