How to redirect STDOUT to a NSTextView?

Question

Could anybody show me how to redirect the Stdout to a NSTextView?

and whether the info print by NSLog belong to the std?

Thanks

Answer 1

I know the question was about objective-c but I thought I would post a swift answer incase that helps someone else.

let pipefd = UnsafeMutablePointer.allocate(capacity: 8)
pipe(pipefd)

dup2(pipefd[1], fileno(stdout))

// Print something here

let buf = UnsafeMutableRawPointer.allocate(byteCount: 1024, alignment: 0)
read(pipefd[0], buf, 100)

close(pipefd[1])

let output = self.ptrToString(pointer: buf)
if output != "" {
    // Do something with output
}

buf.deallocate()
pipefd.deallocate()

And here is the function I use to convert the pointer to a string:

func ptrToString (pointer buf: UnsafeMutableRawPointer) -> String {
    let filteredArray = Array(UnsafeBufferPointer(start: buf.assumingMemoryBound(to: UInt8.self), count: 1024)).filter { item in
        return item != 0
    }

    return filteredArray
        .map { String(UnicodeScalar(UInt8($0))) }
        .joined()
        .components(separatedBy: "\n")[0]
}

Works on swift 4