[Gambas-user] Bug in the IDE editor

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 29 octobre 2007, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> I think there is a bug in IDE editor of the last version of Gambas 1.9.90.
>
> Let me explain....
> I worked a program that manipolates tables from an SQLite3 database and
> assign their values at some strings contained in a module...
> This is a part of the code:
>
> [...]
> StampeAuto.Targa.Add(Risultato!Targa)
> StampeAuto.Veicolo.Add(Risultato!Veicolo)
> StampeAuto.Chiave.Add(Risultato!Chiave)
> StampeAuto.Posto.Add(Risultato!Posto)
> StampeAuto.Piano.Add(Risultato!Piano)
> [...]
>
> The problem is that the first letter of the names of the tables in the
> database are in lower case and the first letter of the names of the
> strings contained in the module StampeAuto are in upper case instead.
> So, what happens? Gambas (as you can see in the example) set all the
> name of the tables after Risultato! in Upper case because it thinks that
> those names are the same variables of the name of the properties of the
> module... and the program doesn't work because it doesn't find nothing
> in the database (Linux discriminates from lower and upper case).
> If I set those names in lower case than Gambas set in lower case the
> name of the tables too and the program works, i.e.:
>
> StampeAuto.targa.Add(Risultato!targa)

Yes, this is some sort of bug, but I think it was fixed recently.

Otherwise, you have a workaround:

StampeAuto.Targa.Add(Risultato["Targa"])

'a!b' is just syntactic sugar for 'a["b"]', except that in the second case the 
compiler correctly stores "b" as a string, and not as an identifier.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini