Hi all.
My Tcl/Tk application is a GUI for C++ program, it calls C++ program with different command line parameters. All still worked correctly but at the end of developing I found a unanderstandable error. When I customary call C++ program with 'exec' command, I recieve an error:

Code:

couldn't execute "D:/TestRider/TestRider.exe -BuildTable D:\\TestRider\\Tables\\Devices\\cat2my.cmt -NewDeviceName cat2my -TesterTable D:\\Tables\\Testers\\CAT2.csv": invalid argument

where:
TestRider.exe - my C++ program
-BuildTable, -NewDevicename, -TesterTable are the keys
Paths are a values for corresponding keys.
Double slashes need for correct parsing inside c++ program.
The calling string is:
Code:

if [catch {exec $directive} errmes] { ....... }

Where value of 'directive' variable shown up.

If I run that command like standalone tcl script with tclsh84 or wish84, C++ program called and work correctly. But when I call it from my own Tk-shell, it return the error showed up.
I don't know what to do 'cause I call this C++ program many times in my Tcl/Tk application and it work correctly!
Any ideas about what I made wrong and how to fix this error?

I think the problem is that you have your command name and parameters all in the same variable that's passed into the exec, so that your program is looking for a command who's name is the entire command line and not just the command name.

Here's an example that I hope clarifies that:

Code:

set directive "ls -l" if [catch {exec $directive} errmes] {        puts "oops - 1 - $errmes"        } set directive "ls" set opt "-l" if [catch {exec $directive $opt} errmes] {        puts "oops - 2 - $errmes"        } puts "done"

The first section gave an errot message (as per your report) and the second section worked.    Here's the output:

Code:

earth-wind-and-fire:~/sep05 grahamellis$ tclsh fu4 oops - 1 - couldn't execute "ls -l": no such file or directory done earth-wind-and-fire:~/sep05 grahamellis$

Oh, thank you, simple and interesting.
But I have solved this problem by calling that C++ program in separate thread   More complex but it's working.

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