Subclassed Shell vs. Shell as window control

Targets macOS
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I have built an application that runs a command line tool using an asynchronous shell, as a control in my main window. Works just fine.

I’m trying to rewrite the application so that I can insatiate multiple instances of a shell so that I can split the work I’m doing in that one shell.

In my preliminary testing the shell isn’t working. I’ve subleased a Shell object and coded the methods and properties I need but when I run the subclassed shell’s method (self.execute(theCommand)) I do get a Completedevent firing but no Self.result. (I am expecting a result – if I run the exact same command through the shell as a control in the window I get the result I expect… and at least some error string in the result if there is anything wrong with theCommand)

Here is where I instantiate a shell instance, set the properties and invoke the method:

divideIntoBatches(projectFolder)
var stamper_01 As new StamperShell
stamper_01.ExecuteMode = shell.ExecuteModes.Asynchronous
stamper_01.Canonical = False
stamper_01.TimeOut = 0
stamper_01.Arguments = ""
stamper_01.myBatch = batch_01
stamper_01.searchString = SearchStringTextfield.value
stamper_01.stampRefID

Any thoughts as to why it might not be working?

Thanks!

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You need to put those shell objects in an array attached to the window.
Otherwise your shell dies at the end of the method.