[Gambas-user] Access global variable from other .class

[tobi]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> Weird that there isn't any standard about this, or is there..?
> I think every linux distribution should have link to it's graphical version
> of sudo/su, with uniform name like GUIsudo.
> Then you could always call it without knowing which environment is used.
> 
> Jussi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 14 June 2012 07:58, Bruce <bbruen at ...2308...> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 04:28 +0000, sundar j wrote:
> > > I am trying to write a code for accepting user password in a input
> > box/textbox when user click on button from main form. For user input i have
> > created new form named sudo.form and codes are in sudo.class file. This
> > sudo.class accepts user password through textbox (hidden) and store it in
> > global variable named password. sudo form is shown when user click on
> > button from main form. Now my problem is that how do i access/capture this
> > global variable (password) from main program? For example, accessing module
> > variable (from sudo.module) we do it like:
> > >
> > > Public Sub function()
> > > Dim accept as string
> > > .
> > > .
> > > accept = sudo.password
> > > Shell "echo " & accept & " | sudo -S somecommand"
> > > .
> > > .
> > > End
> > >
> > > Right now i do not have a code to post but will come back later. But the
> > general idea which i am trying to do is explained above.
> >
> > Why not save yourself the bother and just use kdesu, kdesudo, gksu,
> > gksudo or pkexec (whichever fits your distro).
> >
> > As in, for example:
> >
> >        Shell "gksu -c somecommand"
> >
> >
> > These all provide the privilege gui and probably much more security than
> > redoing it yourself.
> >
> > hth
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >
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If I remember correctly, you can even save more work by using gb.desktop, Desktop.RunAsRoot() which
builds on top of the portland xdg scripts.

Regards,
Tobi