I'm working with SCAR, A pascal IDE that is used to make macros for runescape. In my program I need to execute an external .py I made. I've searched everywhere and cannot find a working solution.
Are there are functions that will do what I'm asking?
Edit: What I mean is run, just like the program would if you were to double-click on it.
may be this helps you:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs
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I'm working on a plugin for a very niche CAD application that our company uses. The development environment is entirely based on Emacs and everything should be done through it.
In this case, code should be edited, navigated, compiled and debugged using Emacs. There is no separation from Emacs and the actual language compiler (from what we know so far - there is no compiler.exe).
Since my team is not a fan of Emacs we are trying to get rid of this dependency so we can use whatever editor we want an compile/interact with the application without Emacs, but looks like this is very hard because everything is built inside it, even go-to definition, find all references all and sorts of commands.
These are all defined in hundreds of .el files (LISP) that are called using custom commands from Emacs.
However, when calling "Run this file" for example, said file is ran inside the application and correctly executed so my question is: what mechanisms could be used used for this to happen? I don't expect precise answers as I can't share the name of the actual CAD application or anything else, but it would be really helpful to understand what options are possible so I can investigate them.
In summary, whenever I "Run this file" the actual application is started by Emacs by calling the command line and the actual file gets executed inside the application. Looks like the contents of the Emacs buffer are passed to the application somehow. This "how" is what I'm trying to find.
Thanks for any help.
Can I make a ruby file (e.g script.rb) unreadable to a user?
The file is on an Ubuntu (offline) machine. The user will use a local Sinatra app that will use some ruby files. I don't want the user to see the code in some of those files.
How can I do it?
EDIT:
Can I setup the project in a way that the user will be able to start the app but won't have access to specific files in it?
Thanks
Does that correspond to what you are searching for ?
chmod yourfile.rb 711
As I said in my comment it is literally almost impossible to hide the content of your ruby source file, many people try this in many different ways but it is almost always trivial to reverse engineer. There are some "suggestions" for making your code hidden but they never really work still, here are a few;
Obfuscation - The process of making your code executable but unreadable, using a tool like ProGuard for Java (there are ones for most major languages) will try to make your code a mess, and as unreadable as possible while still maintaining execution speed. Normally this consists of renaming variables, using strange characters and generally hiding, moving or wrapping functions in complicated structures.
Package the interpreter - You can use a tool like ocra to package the script up inside an executable with the interpreter and standard library, but anyone with even a tiny bit of experience in reverse engineering will be able to easily tear out the source code given a small amount of time
Write a custom interpreter - Now we are getting somewhere with making it harder. Writing a custom interpreter will allow you to compile your script to a "bytecode" that can then be executed. This is of course a very time consuming, expensive and incompatible solution when it comes to working with other code bases.
Write most of your code in C and then call out to it via extensions - Again this mostly moves the problem but its still there. It will take more time but anyone can easily pull apart the machine code of the C library you load in and bob is your uncle they have the source code.
Many more alternatives - This isn't a comprehensive list, I am probably missing a few ideas or suggestions.
As far as it goes making code unreadable is hard a better solution might just to be consider providing a licence agreement with your code. That way, someone reads or modifies the source file you can take them to court for a legal settlement.
Extract your code and its functionality to an external API. And then provide it as a service. This way you don't have to expose your source code to your 'users'.
Is it possible to run a Macro which i record in Notepad++ from the Commandline? Say i record a Macro to search and replace, which i can run in Np++ for the whole text file, i would like to do this kind of Job in a Shell file, is this possible? I couldnt find anything about this in the Documentation.
If not possible can anybody recommend alternative easy to use porgrams for this kind of Job?
Thank you
I haven't seen any documentation on doing this in Np++, but I am pretty sure you can do it in UltraEdit. This is not a free product, though.
I wrote a small tool which sits in my solution (as a project), which runs in the background and helps me debug my main project.
I'd like to run the tool with a macro but I haven't found how to get the build path and execute it in the background.
Any VB macro experts ?
To answer your question partly, apparently you can get the solution path from within a macro like this:
System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(DTE.Solution.FullName)
I found this in some of the macros listed here. Since you say you've got a project within that solution, you could try DTE.Solution.FindProjectItem and progress from there. It's difficult to give more information without knowing more details about your exact scenario.
I look at a lot of small Java programs. It would be convenient if I could set up a directory (or directory structure) on my Mac where any time I add a .java file, javac automatically runs and attempts to compile that file. I've briefly looked into Automator actions, but found nothing that fits the bill. Then I got to thinking: on my PC, I would use the .Net FileSystemWatcher class and write the code myself. But before I try that on my Mac with Mono, I want to ask the community for other ideas. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
In JDK6 you can programmatically compile, so you could write your own program to do this, which may be slightly better than doing it in mono.
So you would just have a program that is always running, it looks for either any new files or a file that has been changed since the last check and then just compiles them, and you may want it to pass information to a dashboard window when there are errors, and perhaps some status info so you know it is working.
http://binkley.blogspot.com/2005/09/programmatically-compiling-java-in-jdk.html
If you have all the .java files available at the start, you could write a shell script to compile them all in one run -- in different directories if you need to.
If you explained why you would want this, maybe I/we could be more helpful.