[Gambas-user] RE: Trouble with examples

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:44, Rob wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:36, BluPhoenyx wrote:
> > Are you sure this is a flaw? The standard procedure in these
> > cases require the user to copy the files (or subdirectories)
> > to some place in their home directory or other user writable
> > directory. This also gives the added benefit of keeping the
> > original source pristine.
>
> The current behavior (that lets you open the project, but then
> produces an error when you try to change it or even build it) is
> broken, and harmful to newbies.  The behavior of making a
> root-owned examples directory world-writable, as many of us have
> done as a workaround, is an unacceptable practice from a
> security standpoint, especially if it were to be done
> automatically.
>
> So, automatically copying the example project down to the user's
> home directory (that's what Application.Home is) prior to
> opening it seems like the least intrusive way to do this, and it
> would even work on multiuser systems.  That is what my above
> pseudocode is meant to do, and I think I can hack it into the
> Gambas IDE quickly once I have time to bury my nose in the
> source again.
>
> Rob
>
>

Wow ! Don't panic !

1) The access error is a bug in the IDE. To temporarily fix it, add "TRY" 
before the beginning of the line 160 in Project.module:

    TRY File.Save(sDir &/ ".lock", "")

In the next version, the project will be open in a read-only mode.

2) In the next version, you will be able to create a new project by copying an 
existing one.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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