[Gambas-user] Question: Wait-sign on start

Rolf-Werner Eilert rwe-sse at osnanet.de
Wed Feb 20 12:02:56 CET 2019


Well, I right-clicked on the desktop and chose "Create a starter..." (or 
whatever it is in English). This makes an icon, and for most of the 
programs this runs with notification. Only Wine has a list of the 
desktop files in .local/share/applications.

Regards
Rolf


Am 19.02.19 um 17:22 schrieb Gianluigi:
> Here it seems to work properly, see attached image.
> Have you created the desktop file correctly and entered it in 
> .local/share/applications?
> 
> Regards
> Gianluigi
> 
> Il giorno mar 19 feb 2019 alle ore 15:45 Rolf-Werner Eilert 
> <rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>> ha scritto:
> 
>     Hi Gianluigi,
> 
>     yes, I know this code, it's part of my Gambas programs.
> 
>     But it has nothing to do with this problem here. Or do I oversee
>     anything?
> 
>     Regards
>     Rolf
> 
> 
>     Am 19.02.19 um 13:18 schrieb Gianluigi:
>      > If you don't want to open a new instance of your project:
>      >
>      >  From a code by Jussi Lahtinen:
>      > '-----------------------------------------------
>      > Public Sub Form_Open()
>      >
>      >    Dim sOutput As String
>      >    Dim s As String = Application.Name
>      >
>      >    Exec ["pgrep", "-f", "-l", s] Wait To sOutput
>      >
>      >    If Split(Trim$(sOutput), gb.NewLine).Count > 1 Then
>      >      Me.Close
>      >    Endif
>      >
>      > End
>      > '-------------------------------------------------------
>      >
>      > Another solution from this discussion on the Gambas-it forum [0]:
>      >
>      >
>     '----------------------------------------------------------------------
>      > ' The gb.settings component must be activated
>      > Private hSetting As Settings
>      >
>      > Public Sub Form_Open()
>      >
>      >    Dim iPid As Integer = Application.Id
>      >    Dim sPid, sSysPid As String
>      >
>      >    hSetting = New Settings(User.Home &/ "myapp.conf")
>      >    If (hSetting["Application/pid", 0] = 0) Then
>      >      ' this is the first execution
>      >      hSetting["Application/pid"] = iPid
>      >      hSetting.Save
>      >    Else
>      >      sPid = hSetting["Application/pid"]
>      >      Shell "ps aux | grep " & sPid & "  | grep -wv grep | wc -l"
>     Wait To
>      > sSysPid
>      >      sSysPid = Replace(sSysPid, "\n", "")
>      >      If (Val(sSysPid) > 0) Then
>      >        Me.Close ' Application already active
>      >      Else
>      >        ' previous instance that probably has an abortion
>      >        hSetting["Application/pid"] = iPid
>      >        hSetting.Save
>      >      Endif
>      >    Endif
>      >
>      > End
>      > '------------------------------------------------------------
>      > Regards
>      > Gianluigi
>      >
>      > [0] http://www.gambas-it.org/smf/index.php?topic=2056.0
>      >
>      > Il giorno mar 19 feb 2019 alle ore 10:10 Rolf-Werner Eilert
>      > <rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
>     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>> ha scritto:
>      >
>      >     Thank you Fabien,
>      >
>      >     good idea, but it doesn't help here. It is the time from
>     clicking the
>      >     icon to starting the program which gets no indicator.
>      >
>      >     Strangely, Mate seems to know that starting a binary needs some
>      >     indication to the user like "This icon was clicked".
>      >
>      >     When there is a Gambas app behind, it seems not to know. So
>     there is no
>      >     reaction when double-clicking the icon, and the user wonders
>     "has my
>      >     double-click been accepted, or is Mate still waiting for
>     something?"
>      >
>      >     Then, mostly, the program pops up and confirms that the
>     double-click
>      >     was
>      >     seen. But prior to this, there is no loading indicator.
>      >
>      >     I just found, the Gambas IDE itself doesn't have a starting
>     indicator.
>      >
>      >     Regards
>      >     Rolf
>      >
>      >
>      >     Am 13.02.19 um 05:24 schrieb Fabien Bodard:
>      >      > Hi,
>      >      >
>      >      > At the start of your program do
>      >      >
>      >      > Inc application.Busy
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      > Then when your application is loaded
>      >      > For exemple at the end of form.open or form.show of your main
>      >     form just do
>      >      >
>      >      > Dec Application.Busy
>      >      >
>      >      > When Application.Busy is >to 0 then then the wait cursor is
>      >     displayed.
>      >      >
>      >      > This way allow to have imbricated call to the waiting state
>      >      >
>      >      > Regards,
>      >      >
>      >      > Fabien Bodard
>      >      >
>      >      > Le mar. 12 févr. 2019 18:37, Rolf-Werner Eilert
>      >     <rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
>     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>
>      >      > <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
>     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>>> a écrit :
>      >      >
>      >      >     Under Ubuntu Mate I don't get a Wait mouse icon when I
>     start
>      >     a Gambas
>      >      >     program. Sometimes I am too hasty and don't doubleclick at
>      >     one spot, so
>      >      >     it doesn't start the program. But sometimes it just
>     starts a
>      >     bit more
>      >      >     slowly, so when I'm nervous I start it twice. You know
>     what I
>      >     mean... :)
>      >      >
>      >      >     Is it possible to get a Wait mouse icon on start, or
>     is it a
>      >      >     drawback of
>      >      >     the interpreter which can't be changed?
>      >      >
>      >      >     I know KDE has an option to set a jumping mouse on any
>      >     doubleclick of
>      >      >     some icon on the desktop, but in Mate other programs
>     (those
>      >     which are
>      >      >     binaries) have it too.
>      >      >
>      >      >     Regards
>      >      >     Rolf
>      >      >
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