Congratulations and question about Windows cmd

[frederikhors]

Using your amazing pkg on Windows 10 with the below code is opening my cmd, why?

function tryMe() {
  const compress = Seven.add("myfolder", "myfolder")
}

[jmopel]

Try to use 7zip-bin module as $bin option. Everything will happen in the background.

npm i 7zip-bin

const Seven = require('node-7z')
const sevenBin = require('7zip-bin')

const pathTo7zip = sevenBin.path7za

function tryMe() {
  const compress = Seven.add("myfolder", "myfolder", {
	  $bin: pathTo7zip
  })
}

[q2s2t]

Thanks !

The package works by spawning an actual 7zip command based on your input, the parse the output (stdout) and send the appropriate JS events.

So what you see is "normal"

Unfortunatly I'm a little bit unclear on the implementation of the Spawn command on Windows (linux user here 😁) and I don't know why it's not happening in the background by default.

I will run more tests in the next few weeks.

[q2s2t]

If you don't need the process to be detached you can do:

function tryMe() {
  const compress = Seven.add("myfolder", "myfolder", { $spawnOptions: { detached: false } } )
}

An alternative is the windowsHide option. But due to what seems to be an upstream bug it doesn't at the moment. moxystudio/node-cross-spawn#143

function tryMe() {
  const compress = Seven.add("myfolder", "myfolder", { $spawnOptions: { windowsHide: true } } )
}

[q2s2t]

Note to myself : consider adding windowsHide as a default on the next version

[q2s2t]

Fixed on the next release