Stdout redirect how to ?

[Rob99]

hi friends I'm new to this fabulous community, I ask you for a help to understand how I can redirect the standard output of a netcat, let me explain better:

I have a network application that sends me a stream of data I would like to take them and put them in a listbox updating them dynamically, I noticed that autoit is not multithreading , so I thought of having NetCat do the data reception and if it was possible to redirect the result to a listview, do you think it makes sense or are there better solutions like UDF? I have personally searched but I have not found anything that did for me, below the draft I wrote

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#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <TabConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>


; End Initialization
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ###
$MainForm = GUICreate("Terminal", 303, 144, 344, 260)
$NRShellStart = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", 12, 29, 129, 65)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 400, 0, "Arial")
$NRShellStop = GUICtrlCreateButton("Stop", 148, 29, 131, 65)
GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 400, 0, "Arial")
GUICtrlCreateTabItem("")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit

    EndSwitch

    Select
        Case $nMsg = $NRShellStart
            ;ShellExecute( @ScriptDir & "\nc64.exe", "-lvp 23456", "c:\")
            Local $text
            Local $Pid = Run( @ScriptDir & "\nc64.exe -lvp 23456", "", 2 + 4)
            $text &= StdoutRead($Pid, False, False)
            ConsoleWrite($text & @CRLF)
        Case $nMsg = $NRShellStop
            ProcessClose("nc64.exe")
 
    EndSelect
WEnd

thanks in advance to all those who want to answer

by Rob99

[Nine]

your run statement skips the show flag, see help file, that is why it doesn't work.

And the way you capture $text may not be enough to grab all data, usually it should be embedded in a loop.

And there is no reason why you have a switch and a select, you can combine those 2 into a single switch.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Nine

[Rob99]

@Nine thanks I will study what you told me🙂