Re: [ecasound] Ecasound-list Digest, Vol 100, Issue 1

 <https://sourceforge.net/p/ecasound/mailman/message/35840948/> [ecasound]
Running ecasound within a script

From: rocco <rocco556@email-addr-hidden...> - 2017-05-15 14:52:54

Hi,
 
I've been writing a tcl/tk front-end for ecasound for quite a few years
now. The whole time I've run it from the console so I can interactively
work with the program for testing and such things. Then I finally got
the brilliant idea (yes... that's sarcasm) to run it from an icon on the
desktop. No matter what I do, I can't get ecasound to run within my
front-end unless my front-end is started from the terminal.
 
I use the mechanism in tcl/tk that allows me to create a pipe to
ecasound that in turn allows me to send commands to ecasound. When I run
my program from the terminal, I go to another terminal and issue the
command...
 
ps -C ecasound -o pid=,args=
 
I get...
 
871 ecasound -c
 
But when I run my front-end from an icon on the desktop, and issue the
'ps' command, I get...
 
956 [ecasound] <defunct>
 
Since the program 'tkeca' is also written in tcl/tk and uses ecasound as
the back-end, I looked at how that program established a pipe and even
how the pipe was configured. It sets things up exactly how I do. When I
tested tkeca, I got the exact same results... never works from an
icon... but always works if ran from the terminal.
 
I experimented with running ecasound (in interactive mode) from bash
scripts and tcl/tk scripts in many different ways and I get the same
results no matter what.
 
I've done everything I can to solve this matter... I read both the
ecasound and ecasound-iam manuals top to bottom... the tcl/tk manuals
top to bottom... googled the topic... tried running ecasound in the
background. Nothing works unless I run my front-end from the console.
 
I know that for us linux audio people, it would be no problem having to
start up a terminal and issue the command to run the front-end (and then
have the terminal there permanently). But this is an attempt to create a
legitimate DAW with complete DAW features that you see in all the other
leading DAW's. It just wouldn't be very professional to ask the average
user to run it from a terminal.
 
Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be much appreciated...
 
Thank You
Rocco
 
 

Re: [ecasound] Running ecasound within a script
<https://sourceforge.net/p/ecasound/mailman/message/35843966/>

From: rocco <rocco556@email-addr-hidden...> - 2017-05-17 06:56:21

On 05/15/2017 07:32 AM, rocco wrote:
> I've been writing a tcl/tk front-end for ecasound for quite a few years
> now. The whole time I've run it from the console so I can interactively
> work with the program for testing and such things. Then I finally got
> the brilliant idea (yes... that's sarcasm) to run it from an icon on the
> desktop. No matter what I do, I can't get ecasound to run within my
> front-end unless my front-end is started from the terminal.
 
I didn't mark this as [SOLVED] because I just want to check with anyone
that knows if this solution will be permanent and work with all systems.
 
First... it took forever for me to find a way to capture the ecasound
errors from tcl. When I did, it said "TERM environment variable not set."
 
In tcl/tk I set TERM to 'linux'. Nothing I read told me how to properly
set TERM. The subject is very confusing.
 
Two questions...
 
Will the value 'linux' work on all systems?
 
Is it ok to set TERM in my tcl/tk script that runs ecasound?
 
Thanks
Rocco
 
 

Hi Rocco,

I had a similar problem and I figured out that I needed to both set the TERM
variable and the COLUMNS variable in order for my ecasound script to work
properly. Here are some more details.

In my application, ecasound is to be run on a remote client (C) from server
(S). To do that a script on S connects to C using ssh and runs a bash script
file on C that contains the ecasound commands. When I was developing the
code to do this I found that I could run the script file on C by physically
logging into that machine and then manually running the script but if I
tried to do this over ssh I got some errors (like your TERM not set
message). It seems that the OS realizes that the ssh session does not have a
physical display connected to it locally, so TERM is not set (it's unset,
meaning it has no value assigned). Also, the number of columns in the text
stream was for some reason set to 80, and sometimes my ecasound command
lines were LONGER than 80 characters such that ecasound tried to read only
the first 80 characters. Until I figured that out I got some confusing (to
me) errors. I solved this problem by setting the TERM and COLUMNS
environmental variables as part of the ssh connection string, which causes
these values to be used for the ssh session. To figure out what I should use
for TERM I simply executed 'echo $TERM' when physically logged into C where
the script worked, and got 'xterm' as the value. For COLUMNS I just chose to
set it to 140, a large enough value for my needs.

You might be experiencing something similar with your icon-driven script.
Try to set TERM and COLUMNS and see if that helps.

-Charlie

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