[Gambas-user] Application.Name

[Hans Lehmann]

Hello.

(1)
I create a project with the project name ´GetAppName´.

Code:

Public Sub Form_Open()
   Label1.Text = "Application.Name = " & Application.Name
End

(2)
Create executable file. The default name `GetAppName.gambas` is taken 
over with `OK`.
Close IDE.

(3)
Starting the executable file `GetAppName.gambas` results in the 
following name for the application:



(4)
Reopen the project with the project name ´GetAppName´ in the IDE.
Create executable file. The default name `GetAppName.gambas` will be 
overwritten with ´get.app.name.gambas` and accepted with `OK`.
Close IDE.

(5)
Starting the executable file ´get.app.name.gambas` results in the 
following name for the application:



I had expected from the definition

/Application.Name (gb)//
//Static Property Read Name As String//
/*/Return the application name, as defined in the IDE project properties 
dialog./*

that the name of the application is `GetAppName` - as in the first 
picture, because I hadn't changed the name in the properties dialog in 
the IDE.

I noticed this strange, unexpected result when I used the value of the 
Application.Name property to create a directory ($sDataDirPath = 
Desktop.DataDir &/"gambas3" &/ Application.Name &/"data") in my home 
directory to export a database file. With the default executable name, 
the program worked as expected. After renaming the executable by 
changing all uppercase letters to lowercase and restarting the program 
from the project directory, a new directory was created and there was an 
empty database file. Great!

Is there an error in Gambas or is the error on my side?

With kind regards

Honsek
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