Question

I have an app written in Lua with wxLua. While this app is running, I want to be able to send a (large) string to an external program so the user can view the string, search it, etc.

This external program can be notepad, notepad++, etc, or even a browser window, as long as the user can view and search the text.

I can open open an editor using

local handle = io.popen(“notepad”, “w”) — for example

but then

handle:write (myString)

doesn’t show anything in the editor. And notepad++ doesn’t even open a new window if I already have it running.

I can launch a browser using

wx.wxLaunchDefaultBrowser (“http://stackoverflow.com”)

but I don’t know how to pass the (100-200kb) string to the browser window.

Any help is very much appreciated, thank you!
Stomp

Answer 1

Print out text or HTML file and then open it in browser with wx.wxLaunchDefaultBrowser ("file://path/to/file") or use os.execute to run external editor with same file as argument.