[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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