Prevent 'cli' prompt being displayed on main thread.

[patrickn]

Hi and thanks for CLI, it looks really interesting.

I am just starting out and going through the examples. I want to create the scheduler and telnet server on the main thread and then run scheduler.Run() in a background thread. Is there a way to prevent the 'cli' prompt from being displayed on the main thread.

Thanks.

[daniele77]

Well, a stream is not displayed on "a thread", it's displayed on "a console".
If you don't want the standard console output but only the remote console (i.e., telnet), you simply don't instantiate CliLocalTerminalSession.
E.g.:

    MainScheduler scheduler;
    // local session not needed
    /*
    CliLocalTerminalSession localSession(cli, scheduler, std::cout, 200);
    localSession.ExitAction(
        [&scheduler](auto& out) // session exit action
        {
            out << "Closing App...\n";
            scheduler.Stop();
        }
    );
    */

    // setup server

    CliTelnetServer server(cli, scheduler, 5000);
    // exit action for all the connections
    server.ExitAction( [](auto& out) { out << "Terminating this session...\n"; } );

    scheduler.Run();

[patrickn]

Doh, I don't know how I missed that? Thanks for the reply. :-)

[daniele77]

Don't worry. Github Discussions exists to make up for missing documentation :-)

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