[Gambas-user] GAMBAS PACKAGE

[Rob]

On Friday 17 June 2005 02:32, BUDI ARIEF GUSANDI wrote:
> When i create installation package from gambas, are all gambas
> component included there too ?

No, they become dependencies of the package.  On any modern Linux 
distribution the package manager will automatically install them 
(assuming that gambas is available from the distro's package 
repositories) when you attempt to install a Gambas application's 
package.

> How to make my app. created in gambas clickable to run (like i put
> on desktop and double click it will launch the app.)

It varies by distribution.  On Mandrake (and I think debian-based 
distros and some others) you need to include a file called 
/usr/lib/menu/(name of package) that looks like this (here's the one 
for fakebas:)

?package(fakebas):command="/usr/bin/fakebas" icon="fakebas.png" 
needs="X11" section="More Applications/Development/Development 
environments" title="Fakebas" longtitle="Unsupported MDI Development 
Environment for Gambas" startup_notify="true"

"Section" is the section of the menu in which it should appear.  
"startup_notify" indicates that the window manager should provide 
visual feedback while it's starting, the way KDE puts a fake entry in 
its taskbar until the program starts up.  I think the rest should be 
pretty self-explanatory, but if not, let me know ;)

If you install the above file in /usr/lib/menu under Mandrake or 
debian, and have your package run "update-menus" in the %post script, 
shortcut files and menu entries for all the major window managers 
will be generated.  At one time, I was auto-generating this file in 
the Gambas RPM generator.  It looks like Benoit still has the code to 
do this as of 1.0.4... don't have a copy of the newest Gambas IDE 
source where I'm sitting now, but I do know package generation is 
broken in 1.9.x.

Rob