[wxruby-users] DOS box popping up under rubyscript2exe

[Mario Steele]

You actually should be able to get the hostname, via Wx::get_host_name()
which will return the hostname of the machine that the application runs on.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Eric Rubin <erubin at valcom.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Alex.  I did find a place where I was doing `hostname` and getting
> rid of this fixed the problem.
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wxruby-users-bounces at rubyforge.org
> [mailto:wxruby-users-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Alex Fenton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:47 AM
> To: General discussion of wxRuby
> Subject: [wxruby-users] DOS box popping up under rubyscript2exe
>
> Hello
>
> My email has been broken for a week and some of it seems to have gone
> astray - so if there are other unanswered wxruby queries kicking about,
> please repost or forward me them.
>
> I have encountered this problem with a DOS box popping up under rubyw /
> rubyscript2exe; I don't think it's related to wxruby. I found them
> popping up when shelling out with backticks - I believe the way that
> ruby executes external programs on Windows causes this if no command
> shell is already present. This may be what's happen with receiving a
> message from an external program in your case.
>
> I got round it by calling the external program via Win32API on Windows,
> instead of ruby's own system/backticks. There's some code that
> encapsulates this here:
>
>
> http://weft-qda.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/stable_1-0/weft-qda/lib/weft/filt
> ers/win32backtick.rb<http://weft-qda.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/stable_1-0/weft-qda/lib/weft/filters/win32backtick.rb>
>
> hth
> alex
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