ProcessControl Class Reference

This class starts and observes a process. More...

#include <processcontrol.h>

Inheritance diagram for ProcessControl:

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List of all members.

Public Types
enum	CrashPolicy { StopOnCrash, RestartOnCrash }
Signals
void	finished (bool clean)
void	processErrorMessages (const QString &errorMsg)
Public Member Functions
	ProcessControl (QObject *parent=0)
	~ProcessControl ()
bool	isRunning () const
void	setCrashPolicy (CrashPolicy policy)
bool	start (const QString &application, const QStringList &arguments=QStringList(), CrashPolicy policy=RestartOnCrash, int maxCrashes=5)
void	stop ()

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Detailed Description

This class starts and observes a process.

Depending on the policy it also restarts the process when it crashes.

Definition at line 32 of file processcontrol.h.

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Member Enumeration Documentation

enum ProcessControl::CrashPolicy

Theses enums describe the behaviour when the observed application crashed.

• StopOnCrash - The application won't be restarted.
• RestartOnCrash - The application is restarted with the same arguments.

Enumerator:

StopOnCrash
RestartOnCrash

Definition at line 44 of file processcontrol.h.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ProcessControl::ProcessControl

(

QObject *

parent = 0

)

Creates a new process control.

Parameters:

parent

The parent object.

Definition at line 27 of file processcontrol.cpp.

ProcessControl::~ProcessControl

(

)

Destroys the process control.

Definition at line 40 of file processcontrol.cpp.

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Member Function Documentation

void ProcessControl::finished

(

bool

clean

)

[signal]

bool ProcessControl::isRunning

(

)

const

Definition at line 143 of file processcontrol.cpp.

void ProcessControl::processErrorMessages

(

const QString &

errorMsg

)

[signal]

This signal is emitted whenever the observed application writes something to stderr.

Parameters:

errorMsg

The error output of the observed application.

void ProcessControl::setCrashPolicy

(

CrashPolicy

policy

)

Sets the crash policy.

Definition at line 57 of file processcontrol.cpp.

bool ProcessControl::start	(	const QString &	application,
		const QStringList &	arguments = QStringList(),
		CrashPolicy	policy = RestartOnCrash,
		int	maxCrashes = 5
	)

Starts the application with the given list of arguments.

Definition at line 45 of file processcontrol.cpp.

void ProcessControl::stop

(

)

Stops the currently running application.

Definition at line 62 of file processcontrol.cpp.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• processcontrol.h
• processcontrol.cpp