[Gambas-user] A issue with gbDesktop.open

[Jorge Carrión]

Buff... I've based all my project on it!... I suppouse that I'll have to
find a way to freeze the application based on the file itself... I can't
imagine how in this moment.

Thank you a lot, Benoit.

Regards

2015-04-25 23:06 GMT+02:00 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:

> Le 21/04/2015 13:24, Jorge Carrión a écrit :
> > I have a project thas uses gbDesktop in order to open .odt documents and
> > let users to modify them.
> > In order to control if a document has changed after been closed the
> second
> > parameter of desktop.open is setted to True.
> >
> > gbDesktop.Open(myfile,True)
> >
> > It seems work fine..but (allways there's a but) yesterday I find that in
> my
> > Office development mahcine, executing the project from the IDE, that
> second
> > parameter was ignored and the project does'nt wait for the end of
> launched
> > Desktop application (LibreOffice).
> >
> > It drive me nut all the morning and I wrote a workaround... but (again)
> > this morning the second parameter works fine.
> >
> >   The same machine, the same project, the same gambas. Yesterday doesn't
> > work, today works.
> >
> > There is some explanation? This point is very important to my project, if
> > program doesn't wait all the sistem fails...
> >
> > The system info:
> > [System]
> > Gambas=3.7.0
> > OperatingSystem=Linux
> > Kernel=3.13.0-37-generic
> > Architecture=x86_64
> > Distribution=Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
> > Desktop=GNOME
> > Theme=QCleanlooks
> > Language=es_ES.UTF-8
> > Memory=5934M
> > [Libraries]
> > Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11301.0
> > Curl=libcurl.so.4.3.0
> > DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.7.6
> > GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
> > GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.204.0
> > GTK+3=libgtk-3.so.0.1000.8
> > GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.23
> > OpenGL=libGL.so.1.2.0
> > Poppler=libpoppler.so.44.0.0
> > Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.6
> > SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
> >
> > The project uses qt4 and the Desktop Qt4 theme is cleanlooks
> >
> > I can't send a proyect reproducing the error: *Today* it works fine!
> >
> > Regards.
>
> Desktop.Open() relies on an xdg-util shell script to open the file.
>
> When the Wait argument is True, Desktop.Open() just waits for the end of
> the xdg-util script. It does not know how to wait for the end of the
> program that will open the file for you.
>
> The Wait argument is mainly useful to catch a possible error when
> running a script. It is not reliable for doing what you want.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
>
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