[Gambas-user] Opening Pipes (avoiding lockup)

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 03/10/2020 à 20:55, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> Hi all.
> I just uploaded a simple pipe opening/watching routing to the 
> Application section as an example.
> The reason for this was because it took me quite some time to figure out 
> how to get a pipe working at first and thought many others may have hit 
> the same brick wall. It seemed EVERYTHING I tried just locked up the app 
> til the pipe got some text sent, then everything was okay, the app could 
> run and the File_Read() event would trigger on any more text sent as 
> expected.
> 
> What was not expected is that "Opening" the pipe is like calling a Read 
> method that locks the program till it gets some text.
> I came up with a simple solution (eventually) to use the Shell command 
> to echo a blank line to the pipe just before opening it...
> 
>   Shell "echo '' >/tmp/FIFO1"
>   hFile = Pipe "/tmp/FIFO1" For Read Watch
> 
> That way when the pipe opens it gets the echo and moves on so the 
> program continues running.
> It just seemed wrong though.
> Like either i was doing something wrong in how i was opening the pipe or 
> it was a bug in the pipe opening call?
> I would have thought that setting the "Watch" option would open the pipe 
> without expecting text and just set up the Read event and move on.
> 
> I found using "Read Write Watch" all together and setting Blocking to 
> False Allowed the program to move past the open without sending text but 
> that gave me weird errors like pop-up menus stopped triggering Click() 
> events, I had some menus visible in the menubar AND attached to a button 
> popup and got the click event okay from the top menu but got nothing 
> from the popup menus. If i removed the "Write" from the pipe opening 
> call the popups worked again!?
> I found the Shell "echo" method the best way but like i say , seems 
> wrong to have to do it that way.
> 
> Thanks all :)
> 
> 
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I have no locking problem with opening a pipe for reading and watching. 
Please post your project and tell which version of Gambas you are using.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini