[Gambas-user] Settings

[B Bruen]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:29:43 +0930
B Bruen <bbruen at ...2308...> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:35:53 -0600
> Randall Morgan <rmorgan62 at ...626...> wrote:
> 
> > Must be too big on your end. I know I and others have sent larger files...
> > But the link works also. I'll look at your code and get back to you.
> > 
> 
> I have had a bit of a look at this.  To me, it appears that sdl is doing something nasty to the Try.. If Error construct.
> The failure occurs in the Settings class when it is creating the directory chain for the user's .config/gambas3 directory.
> It fails on the first iteration through the path, i.e. 
>   Try Mkdir "/" & sPath 
> when sPath = "" i.e. the root directory (strangely enough!) already exists.
> 
> That line should not fail i.e. the Try should ignore the error silently. But with sdl it appears not too?
> 
> Definitely a bug within Gambas itself.
> 
> Over to Benoit...
> 
> regards
> Bruce
> 
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oops
P.S. the fail occurs in the Settings class at line 96

It can be patched if you are using the Gambas source by changing line 96 to:
  If Not Exists("/" & sPath) Then MkDir "/" & sPath

but you will still get fails later when another Try... is executed in the Settings class.

regards
Bruce
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