[Gambas-user] Fwd: Combobox, Old Auto-list-width-behaviour ? Tweaked cbo, Failed to unpack

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com
Sat May 28 17:27:02 CEST 2022


On 5/28/22 08:35, gian via User wrote:
> 
>>
>> How to unpack and import you attachment ?
>> Opening it as a .tar.gz fails with:
>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>> tar: Child returned status 1
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your support. Have a nice WE.
>>
>> ub2
>>
>> (Busy today I'll check mail in the late evening)
>> (Still hoping improved cbo will make it into next Rev ;-) )
> 
> 
> Acting on the "Open project..." button or at the menu File > Open project... "Select a project" window opens, you need to act on 
> the "Open" tab and navigate to the folder that contains the tar.gz.gmail.txt 
> file that will appear on the right section of the window.
> Right click on the tar.gz.gmail.txt file and choose the menu item "Uncompress file" to create the compressed file, repeating the 
> same operation will get the file decompressed and ready to open

To be fully clear, don't use gzip (or any other decompressor) on the command line. Use the IDE as Gianluigi described. It has 
built-in capabilities for that.


-- 
Lee


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