[Gambas-user] who to detect if are running inside IDE

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2017, Karl Reinl wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.07.2017, 20:40 +0200 schrieb Tobias Boege:
> > On Mon, 03 Jul 2017, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> > > a piece of code to who to detect if are running inside IDE?  any ideas how
> > > to?
> > > 
> > 
> > Exact same question here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/34204796/
> > 
> > If I may add something to the things said in the above thread: you could try
> > to get the parent PID of your Gambas process and determine if it's the IDE.
> > 
> > If you always run on Linux you can probably use the /proc filesystem to get
> > the path to the executable of your parent process or its command line. Then
> > it depends on if you want to trust that the user always installs the IDE as
> > "gambas3.gambas", for instance. Examining the parent process will probably
> > not work anymore if you run your process *from the IDE* but through gb.httpd
> > or through xterm (which are options in the IDE).
> > 
> > I'm convinced that no matter how you try to detect if you're run by the IDE
> > or not, someone can create an environment where your test gives the wrong
> > answer. I still stand by my statement from two years ago: you shouldn't care
> > where your program is run from in the first place. What problem are you
> > trying to solve by knowing that?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
> > 
> 
> Salut Tobi,
> 
> I use (since gambas1) the project Arguments from the IDE. I set a ISIDE.
> 
> Sub chkIfIsIDE()
> Dim nI As Integer
>     bIsIDE = False
>     For nI = 0 To Application.Args.Count - 1
> '        PRINT Application.Args[nI]
>         If InStr(UCase(Application.Args[nI]), "ISIDE") > 0 Then
>             bIsIDE = True
>         Endif
>     Next
> End
> 
> So if I don't call my project with a parameter called ISIDE, I can be
> sure .I ran in the IDE.
> 
> And the use is, I set the first key of my DB to 9999 that is my
> Test-Mandant that's just a copy from one of my Mandants in my DB. 
> So no problems with crashing DB-data, that's the problem I solved with!.
> 
> Sorry : Mandant = mandator 
> 

Yes, and, in my opinion, you solved it the right way, by introducing
a proper interface which the user has to know and respect. Your program
doesn't guess, it is instructed.

Regards,
Tobi

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