[Gambas-user] Where are the examples in gambas 3.5.1?

Sat Nov 30 23:40:12 CET 2013

G'day Matti:
Now I'm getting confused again!   Is not the repository you refer to 
a repository only for the opemSUSE?  I have assumed my openSUSE 12.2 
is working fine, but it is the gambas install that gives me 
problems.  The openSUSE 12.2 I actually have comes from a 
store-boughten DVD set put out by (I think) UnixAcademy.com.  Seems 
to go on just fine.  I use the KDE gui. Reason I'm trying to stick 
with it is that I bought some moderately expensive books on SUSE 
Linux for those long winter nights (that have just 
passed).  Yesterday i removed the troublesome gambas 3.5 install and 
tried again, but munix9 is the only repo that I know that gives me 
something approaching a "one-line" install.  Once again, I had 
trouble with four packages (including the examples) with missing 
dependencies.   I couldn't initially install gambas-gb-v4l because of 
missing -tools and needing tv-common; examples needed libmlib2.so.1 
etc.  However, I played around with trying to install those packages 
one by one and finally they did install with no complaints about 
dependencies.   Now all the packages are installed (white ticks on a 
black background for all of them) at the gambas 3.5.1 -2.5 level 
except for gb-gui, gb-maps and script which are at the 3.4.1-2.29 
level.  I don't know if that is a problem?
The fact that I got gambas 3.5 (whether I wanted it or not) from 
munix9 suggests that somebody is working and trying to keep it up to date.
Now my examples show in gambas 3.5.1, but I still have problems.

When I start gambas 3.5.1 I get my "tip of the day" and "recent 
projects".  If I go to examples, like "dragNdrop", the project opens 
and I get a "project is read only" notice.  Fair enough! I just get a 
mottled grey screen on the right.  Under the project "sources", if I 
left click "FDragNdrop", nothing happens (I need to refresh my memory 
on these operations with gambas).  If I right click it, I immediately 
get a fatal error, namely:  [2] cannot load class "_Gui': 
FMain.tvwProject_Menu.257 - and automatically exit from gambas.  All 
the examples I have tried act similarly.

Now, I can't help wondering if this error is related to the fact that 
gb-gui is installed at the 3.4 level, whereas most of gambas is 
installed at 3.5 level?  So far as I'm aware (not very far!), munix9 
did not give me the option of installing at the 3.4 level.   It's 
possible that this gambas install can be retrieved quite simply by 
installing a different package - I don't know and I await advice.

I recall that (as I said in my post last September 2012) I did get an 
earlier gambas3 successfully installed under a real installation of 
SUSE 10 on an older machine, so one way or another, I should be able 
to get it going under SUSE 12.2.  My (real paper) reference books are 
all about SUSE 10 and 11, but I expect are still reasonably good for 
SUSE 12.  They are my real monetary investment that I'm trying to 
save.   In addition, although I'm struggling, this is a learning 
process about real-world Linux - but not getting me far into gambas, 
which is where i really want to spend my time.  I appreciate any 
assist you can provide at this stage.

In the meantime, I have downloaded Mint 13 "Maya"  and will try 
installing that tonight under VMPlayer.  I saw and downloaded Willy 
Raets ebook "how to Gambas" which gives an installing path for that 
version of Linux - which might produce an interesting comparison for me.

Thank you for your continued interest.
Carl

At 10:41 AM 30/11/2013, you wrote:
>Hi Carl,
>
>I don't know if this munix9.rpm is still working and up to date.
>Right now, I can recommend (for 12.3) the repository
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_12.3/
>Somebody is doing a good job there, and each stable version seems to 
>be complete.
>Regards, Matti
>
>Am 29.11.2013 12:42, schrieb Carl Nilsson:
> > G'day again:
> > To my (slight) embarrassment, I see that I asked the same question
> > fourteen months ago (27-28 Sep 2012) and got pointed in the correct
> > direction by Matti - and so got gambas 3.2 with its' examples running
> > on openSUSE 12.2 .  Guess that's what you expect from Seniors like
> > me.  Amazing how time flies when you are busy on other things - not
> > to mention the memory!  Anyway, I'll follow that path again and
> > apologise for taking up your email space. (Just as well I subscribe
> > on the gambas-user list and keep the emails!).
> > Carl
> >
> > At 01:38 PM 29/11/2013, you wrote:
> >> G'day:
> >> I have installed gambas 3.5.1 from munix9 rpm running under openSUSE
> >> 12.2 on a Virtual Machine (VMWare Player) on a Win 7 32 bit
> >> desktop.  gambas seems fine, but there are no examples. ...(snip)
> >> Regards Carl
> >>
> >> Carl S Nilsson
> >> 137 Gordons Hill Road
> >> Lindisfarne, Tas.
> >> Australia 7015
> >>
> >>
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