[Gambas-user] Hello and questions

[Rolf Schmidt]

Hi

> > 5. The first thing that I did after installing Gambas was to
> > try to run
> > the samples. None of them would compile. I eventually figured
> > out that
> > it was because I was running Gambas as a normal user. When I
> > ran as root
> > the samples ran well and were impressive. My suspicion is that Gambas
> > needs to write the compiled file(s) somewhere and my normal user
> > couldn't write to that location. It seems this location must be the
> > project folder which is /usr/share/gambas2/examples/ for me.
> > Is there a
> > way to tell Gambas to write the compiled files to another
> > location (like
> > the temp folder) when running a read only project.
>
> This does not appear to be a Gambas problem. If you compile Gambas then
> the examples are compiled at install time. So they work.
>
> However I have seen this problem on Linux distro's like Fedora and
> Ubuntu. This happens when you install Gambas through their package
> manager. These package managers to not set the correct permissions for
> the examples.
>
> If you are the only person using the machine it would be better to set
> the owner and group of the examples to yourself. Its better to use root
> as little as possible. Or copy the examples to somewhere in your home
> directory. (You also get the advantage they are not read only, so you
> can play with the code.)
>
To make the examples working, just copy them to your home directory and open 
them in gambas. So the examples keep unchanged for other users as well or 
another try.

Rolf
 
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