help with running programs with c++

Hi,

I'm new here, and not sure whether i'm in the right place for this, but i thought i'd give it a shot anyway!

Basically i have a fortran program already written, that takes in the name of a text file as an input. I'm wanted to create a user interface to create this text file, and then i would have a button or something to enable me to then run the fortran program and input the file all from the user interface, and get rid of the need to manually run the fortran program.

Firstly, is this even possible?! Is it difficult to program and get to work?! Does anyone have any suggestions or guidance on this.

Thanks

One part of it at least is pretty easy.
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

>Firstly, is this even possible?!
You can use the system command to run an external program. For example:

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system("name_of_fortran_program");

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While this is in the C++ forum, GUI in C++ is not something one picks up the first couple weeks in C++.

I would recommend Perl with P/TK. Makes native looking interface, and is not very hard to get used to.

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While this is in the C++ forum, GUI in C++ is not something one picks up the first couple weeks in C++.

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I did.

Have you considered popen()/pclose()?