[Gambas-user] Two short questions

[Ian Roper]

Could you use
Exec ["xdg-open", Application.path &/ "myfile.pdf"]

or is the bad practice ?

Note # xdg-open is on most Linux Distros and will open a nominated file
with the correct program if there is one installed for this purpose.

Regards,
Ian Roper ~ Perth - Western Australia.



On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:26 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 03/03/2012 18:53, M. Cs. a écrit :
> > Hi I have two short questions:
> > 1. Is it a way to handle a curl request as process?
> > I use to call :
> > Shell "curl http://www.mysite.com" to $myvar
> > This is a bit unsafe. If the net hangs, the program hangs too. Would I
> > be able to kill the process, if I created it as:
> > $hProcess=Exec["curl","http://www.mysite.com"]
> > ?
> 
> Or you can use the gb.net.curl component, that does CURL request 
> asynchronously.
> 
> >
> > 2. I've created a PDF file, and I would like to include it to the
> > project package, and let the user open it with a PDF browser. What's
> > the path of the included myfile.pdf if I would like to open it with
> > shell command in Okular or similar?
> >
> > Thanks for the fast answer!
> >
> > Csaba
> 
> You must copy it to a temporary location, because only the Gambas 
> program can access files located inside its executable.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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