PR# 11042 Please add a "no wait" option to External Commands
Problem Report Summary
Submitter: peter_gummer
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: Low
Date: 2006/08/18
Class: Feature Request
Severity: Non-critical
Number: 11042
Release: 5.7.62110
Confidential: No
Status: Open
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Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Synopsis: Please add a "no wait" option to External Commands
Description
The improvements to External Commands seem to be working well, but I do have one issue. When a command is run now, I cannot execute a second command until the first one finishes. This is often inappropriate, e.g., if the external command starts a GUI rather than a command-line application. I've found that an easy fix for this, on Windows at least, is to prefix the command with "start". I figured this out easily, since I've had plenty of practice with this sort of thing, but I suspect this might cause a few people more trouble. It would be nicer if you had an explicit "no wait" check box.
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