Le 16/08/2013 09:13, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit : > I have been trying around this problem and found a reproduceable behaviour. > > To make it short, this is the standard way in my program: > > Within SUB Main, I read the mails from the server (contact forms), one > by one. Each one's data is processed into a pdf (pdf made by Cairo > class) and a mail text body, then sent to the recipient by e-mail via > the external script (shelling out). > > When the whole thing runs from cron, it will deliver 0 Byte PDFs, but > the originals on the system are fine (the copies remain in the > directory). The mailing system does not see any error. > > Now is the trick: When I use a ready-made pdf copy and call mail-sending > SUB with these data directly, it will deliver the PDF correctly. This is > reproduceable. > > So my thought was, it might be that when started from cron, the Gambas > app runs through so fast that it calls mail sending BEFORE Cairo is > ready writing the PDF. This would mean Cairo is working on its own. So > there is a file (you have to give the file name before starting to > print), but 0 bytes, and that is sent. Only after sending the mail, the > rest of the data is written and remains in the directory. > > How could I check for Cairo to be done with the file before sending the > mail? Or should I just wait couple of seconds? > > Rolf >
AFAIK, Cairo is synchronous, so when Cairo.End() returns, your PDF file should be complete. Show us some code... -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
