[Gambas-user] A issue with gbDesktop.open

[Jorge Carrión]

A question, Benoit, it's the same thing for

Shell <command> wait

Is based in xdg-util script too?

Regards


2015-04-26 10:31 GMT+02:00 Jorge Carrión <shordi at ...626...>:

> 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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