[Gambas-user] MTHeme error...

[B Bruen]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:46:20 +0200
Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Stephen wrote:
> >    Thank you Tobias.
> > 
> >    Hmmmm... it (MTheme.ReadFile) is looking for a subdir off /tmp with 
> > the name of gambas. I created the subdir manually and gambas3-3.5.4 now 
> > starts up as it should.
> >    Perhaps a change to the MTheme.module is warranted, check for the 
> > existence of the directories referenced in sPath, create them if need 
> > be, then copy sPath to sTemp. Just a thought.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, interesting. From _init(), ReadFile("gambas") gets called, which
> constructs a path "theme/gambas" to load the default theme which is then
> copied to a temporary location, which is the famous line 59.
> 
> But the path to copy the theme file to is obtained from Temp$() so if this
> directory doesn't exist, some node in the path /tmp/gambas.UID/PID/ does not
> exist (which would be strange) or Temp$() is broken...
> 
Guessing ...
>some node in the path /tmp/gambas.UID/PID/ does not
> exist (which would be strange) 
but then wouldn't the fail occur earlier when tmp/gambas.UID/PID was created?
> Temp$() is broken...
again wouldn't that imply an earlier failure?

So something else is awry.

rgrds
Bruce

> Regards,
> Tobi
> 
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