can buttons know what happens to programs they launch?

[Hans Chen]

You may want to take a look at KProcess:
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKProcess.html
For example, here's a Python plasmoid that uses it:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Redshift+plasmoid?content=148737

With best regards,
Hans Chen

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 20:06, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my plasmoid I have a button that launches a python program with certain
> arguments.  Is it possible for the button to know whether or not the
> application exited with an error?  And if so, is it possible to have it
> change colour based on that?
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