'
'       This example launchs a command prompt with the directory set 
'       to the current user path
'
' The new command prompt inherits all the environmental variables
' from Softimage so it will behave like a Softimage command prompt
startDir = Application.InstallationPath( siUserPath )
bBlocking = false               ' We don't want the command prompt to freeze Softimage
if Application.Platform = "Win32" then
        XSIUtils.LaunchProcess "cmd /C start cmd /K title Softimage Command Prompt", bBlocking, startDir  
else
        XSIUtils.LaunchProcess "xterm", bBlocking, startDir
end if

/*
        This example shows how the XSIUtils.LaunchProcess method can be used to execute an 
        external process. In this case it shows spdlcheck can be used to test a spdl directly 
        from within scripting.
*/
if ( Application.Platform == "Win32" )
{
        var slash = "\\" ;      
}
else
{
        var slash = "/" ;
}
// Path to one of the spdl files that ships with Softimage
var twistSpdl = Application.InstallationPath( siFactoryPath ) + slash + "Application" 
                        + slash + "spdl" + slash + "twistop.spdl" ;
var strResults = SpdlCheckFile( twistSpdl ) ;
if ( strResults == "" )
{
        LogMessage( "Spdl is OK" ) ;
}
else
{
        LogMessage( "Spdl is busted:\n" + strResults ) ;
}
// Helper function that runs spdlcheck on the provided file path. 
// Returns:
//  - an empty string if the spdl is ok.  
//  - the error details output by spdlcheck if there is a problem.
function SpdlCheckFile( in_file )
{                       
        // We will launch "spdlcheck" and tell it to output
        // its results into a temporary file    
        var tmpFile = Application.InstallationPath( siUserPath ) + slash
                        + "spdlcheckoutput.tmp" ;
        var cmd = "spdlcheck -nologo -noverbose -out \"" + tmpFile + "\" \"" + in_file + "\"";
        Logmessage( "This command line will be executed:\n" + cmd ) ;
        // Specify true for the blocking argument so that our script waits until spdlcheck
        // has finished before trying to read the output file
        XSIUtils.LaunchProcess( cmd, true ) ;
        var oFSO = new ActiveXObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" ) ;
        var oTextFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(tmpFile, 1 ) ;
        // We expect a string like:
        // "Compilation succeeded c:\Softimage\<....>\Application\spdl\twistop.spdl (XSI Object)"
        fileAsStr = oTextFile.ReadAll() ;
        oTextFile.Close() ;
        oFSO.DeleteFile( tmpFile ) ;
        // If we find the string "Compilation succeeded" then we would know that 
        // we were successful
        if ( -1 != fileAsStr.search( /Compilation succeeded/ ) )
        {
                return "" ;
        }
        // Return the error details
        return fileAsStr ;
}