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

[adamnt42 at ...626...]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 20:40:46 +0200
Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:


> 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


Since you asked :-)

Laziness!

Many times I have a menu item in a form that just "Stop"s the program i.e.

Private Sub mnuDebug()
Stop
End

then in the Form_Open()

#If Exec
mnuDebug.Visible = False
#Endif

So at development time, or when the customer has a problem, I almost always have a way to stop the program when it's running in the IDE.

All this does is "tidy up" the program automatically when run outside the IDE. If a user wants to go to the extent of creating a non-x version of the program just to see that menu item - which will do nothing anyway since the Stop is ignored - then all I can say is "Good luck to them."

There are probably trickier or even "more correct" ways to hide a menu item at runtime, but hey! Three lines and "As Far As I Care" - problem solved.

b

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