Fwd: how to change directory of work?

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sujet : Re: how to change directory of work?
Date : Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:38:46 +0200
De : roberto.premoli@xxxxxxxxxx
Pour : Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Il 13.04.2025 23:26 Benoît Minisini ha scritto:

> Le 13/04/2025 à 23:18, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>
> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 21:28, > wrote: __ hello. im writing a 
> > frontend
> > with gambas to a program (no matter it now), lets call it
> > "executable_cli". This program is in /somewhere/path/to/program, in 
> > my
> > case: "/home/user/path/to/program" so i use shell
> > "/home/user/path/to/program" I do what i do into executable_ci, 
> > close
> > it and back to frontend. all good till now. But the executable_cli
> > suppose to find and save data in his current directory that is
> > /home/user/path/to/program but frontend current directory is 
> > /home/user
> > executable_chi cannot be parametrized with some flag to tell hime 
> > where
> > save data and from where retrive data, it supposes always tht place 
> > is
> > here it is in the filesystem and I cannot change the executable
> > behaviour. so, from gambas, i try to do: shell "cd
> > /home/user/path/to/program" shell
> > "/home/user/path/to/program/executable_cli" but i does not work exec
> > ["cd /home/user/path/to/program"] does not work either. so, who to 
> > tell
> > gambas to "move into" /somewhere/path/to/program? Thanks Roberto 
> > there
> > is no such thing as a "working directory" in gambas. every time you 
> > run
> > Shell you create a new process so you cannot run "cd dir" in one 
> > Shell
> > command then another Shell command be in that dir. You could do it 
> > in
> > one single Shell command by using a newline.. Shell "cd
> > /home/user/path/to/programn" & "executable_cli" But you cannot 
> > change
> > the applications working directory. BruceS
>
> Otherwise you can actually specify the working directory in Exec or
> Shell by specifying it the "PWD" environment variable.
>
> Exec ["pwd"] With ["PWD=/root"] Wait
>
> It's an undocumented Gambas feature.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Benoît Minisini.



Hello Mr. Minisini,
i tried this:

  Message(User.home) 'test: it prints "/home/utente"
  Exec ["pwd"] With ["PWD=/home/utente/Immagini"] Wait
  Message(User.home) 'test: it prints "/home/utente"

but user.home in not affected.

Thnks,
Roberto