The below code captures console outputs and send it in real time to callback function, so the application can handle it such as displaying its progress by adding to memo, so end user may not think the application is hanging while program performing the command.
procedure TMainFrm.CaptureConsoleOutput(const ACommand: String; CallBack: TArg<PAnsiChar>);
const
READ_BUFFER_SIZE = 2400;
var
Security: TSecurityAttributes;
piEncoder: TProcessInformation;
readableEndOfPipe, writeableEndOfPipe: THandle;
start: TStartUpInfo;
Buffer: PAnsiChar;
BytesRead: DWORD;
AppRunning: DWORD;
tmpSL:TStringList;
tmpS:string;
begin
tmpS := GetEnvironmentVariable('TEMP') + '\' + 'CKJUNPA.BAT';
tmpSL := TStringList.Create;
tmpSL.Add(ACommand);
// tmpSL.SaveToFile(tmpS, TEncoding.UTF8); - bat file seems correct, but does not work
// tmpSL.SaveToFile(tmpS, TEncoding.ANSI); - multibyte character is incorrectly written on batch file
tmpSL.SaveToFile(tmpS, TEncoding.ANSI);
Security.nLength := SizeOf(TSecurityAttributes);
Security.bInheritHandle := True;
Security.lpSecurityDescriptor := nil;
if CreatePipe({var}readableEndOfPipe, {var}writeableEndOfPipe, @Security, 0) then
begin
Buffer := AllocMem(READ_BUFFER_SIZE+1);
FillChar(Start, Sizeof(Start), #0);
start.cb := SizeOf(start);
// Set up members of the STARTUPINFO structure.
// This structure specifies the STDIN and STDOUT handles for redirection.
// - Redirect the output and error to the writeable end of our pipe.
// - We must still supply a valid StdInput handle (because we used STARTF_USESTDHANDLES to swear that all three handles will be valid)
start.dwFlags := start.dwFlags or STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
start.hStdInput := GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); //we're not redirecting stdInput; but we still have to give it a valid handle
start.hStdOutput := writeableEndOfPipe; //we give the writeable end of the pipe to the child process; we read from the readable end
start.hStdError := writeableEndOfPipe;
//We can also choose to say that the wShowWindow member contains a value.
//In our case we want to force the console window to be hidden.
start.dwFlags := start.dwFlags + STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
start.wShowWindow := SW_HIDE;
// Don't forget to set up members of the PROCESS_INFORMATION structure.
piEncoder := Default(TProcessInformation);
//WARNING: The unicode version of CreateProcess (CreateProcessW) can modify the command-line "DosApp" string.
//Therefore "DosApp" cannot be a pointer to read-only memory, or an ACCESS_VIOLATION will occur.
//We can ensure it's not read-only with the RTL function: UniqueString
if CreateProcess(nil, PChar(tmpS), nil, nil, True, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, nil, nil, start, {var}piEncoder) then
begin
//Wait for the application to terminate, as it writes it's output to the pipe.
//WARNING: If the console app outputs more than 2400 bytes (ReadBuffer),
//it will block on writing to the pipe and *never* close.
repeat
Apprunning := WaitForSingleObject(piEncoder.hProcess, 100);
Application.ProcessMessages;
//Read the contents of the pipe out of the readable end
//WARNING: if the console app never writes anything to the StdOutput, then ReadFile will block and never return
repeat
BytesRead := 0;
ReadFile(readableEndOfPipe, Buffer[0], READ_BUFFER_SIZE, {var}BytesRead, nil);
if BytesRead>0 then
begin
Buffer[BytesRead]:= #0;
OemToAnsi(Buffer,Buffer);
// added for debugging -----------------------------------------
KDEBUG( string(Buffer));
// end of debugging --------------------------------------------
CallBack(Buffer);
end;
until BytesRead<READ_BUFFER_SIZE;
until (Apprunning <> WAIT_TIMEOUT);
end;
FreeMem(Buffer);
CloseHandle(piEncoder.hProcess);
CloseHandle(piEncoder.hThread);
CloseHandle(readableEndOfPipe);
CloseHandle(writeableEndOfPipe);
end;
tmpSL.Destroy;
end;
Example)
var
strDir, strFFMPEG: string;
begin
strDir := GetCurrentDir;
strFFMPEG := '"' + strDir + '\ffmpeg.exe"';
strFFMPEG := strFFMPEG + ' -y -i C:\test.mkv -vcodec h264 -acodec aac -f mp4 C:\test-2.mp4';
Memo1.Lines.Add(strFFMpeg);
CaptureConsoleOutput(strFFMPEG,
procedure(const Line: PAnsiChar)
begin
//Panel1.Caption := String(Line);
Memo1.Lines.Add( String(Line));
end
);
end;