Sorry to butt in but would it help to have Replace work the way Benoît
had it originally and use something else for Tobi's substitution of
one instance for a substitute string - like maybe Substitute? Or is
that already spoken for?
Richard
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Got it. I'll use my glasses next time - better than squinting at a
blur on the screen.
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> I haven't seen any package who uses capitalisation in the /usr/bin folder.
On my system it would be more accurate to say "many" and not "any".
I have binaries called:
GET
HEAD
MageiaUpdate
Mail
POST
QXmlEdit
RunWM, and a selection of other RunWM.* variants
VBoxHeadless
VBoxManageetc
Virtua
On 14/02/2013, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 14/02/2013 19:00, John Rose a écrit :
>> Tobi,
>>
>> I wanted to see if anyone had run into this issue before. That was why I
>> was vague.
>>
>> If I create the installation package without specifying gnome-panel as
>> an Extra Dependency but run 'sudo a
Life is too short. I'll just wait for the Mageia 3 release (shouldn't
be too long now) and with a bit of luck it will have a "recent" Gambas
3. The last time I looked at the MGA3 alpha it was at 3.3.4 so things
are looking good!
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Hmmm, looks useful - in principle - sadly though, I fall at the first
hurdle. When I try to remove libllvm3.0 my package manager insists
that 126 other packages are dependent and must also be removed.
It seems that Mageia 2 packagers are prone to exaggerate the meaning
of "depend".
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That fixes my problem. Thankyou Benoît.
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Hi Benoît,
I had just finished updating my form prototype (used for checking
layout techniques for this project) to use it as an alternative to the
one in the project.
I dropped it in and immediately on running got a menu-related error.
It dawned on me that the menu definitions, though not "visibl
Benoît,
I made a copy of the project with the mal-functioning checkbox and in
the process caused the error message on opening the project which I
mentioned at the top of this thread.
I had two copies to compare and the only difference is in the
project's .settings file. The relevant entries are s
OK Charlie,
After "urpme -a gambas3" I have an empty /usr/lib64/gambas3 and an
empty /usr/share/gambas3. There are no gambas executables in /usr/bin
either so I reckon the rpm spec files are good enough in that respect.
The rpms also build without errrors, albeit in a decidedly non-trivial
length
Charlie,
I have skimmed over that thread and I think you are suggesting I might
have some wrong-versioned gambas stuff lying around. I have been
depending on my package manager (urpmi/urpme) to handle removal and
installation of my home-built rpms so it is worth checking how
thorough it is. Doing t
That's alright Benoît,
I cannot reproduce it reliably either. I have changed "back" to the
3.3.3 Gambas and so far the new problem (evidenced by the error report
on 3.3.2) has not returned.
I will follow up on the lead Charlie suggested and see if that may
have some relevance to my unresponsive co
I forgot to say, this is happening using Gambas 3.3.2. I am going to
try again with 3.3.3 which I built yesterday and which was used
earlier today with no IDE strangeness.
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I have been chasing phantoms since early Saturday after checking out a
recently successfully completed project built with Gambas 3.1.1.
The most recent "strangeness" appeared a while ago when I re-started
my investigations at a new location with slightly different Gambas
setup.
The IDE startup, a
On 19/10/2012, Christer Johansson wrote:
>
> It would be great if it leaved the exisiting comments intact since
> when dealing with large .conf files comments are IMHO invaluable to
> have in there.
>
Just a thought, Christer, but have you tried using "comment" entries
in your settings? What I me
I cannot remember when it happened, but in recent versions of the
Gambas3 IDE it is no longer possible to right-click and select paste
to put a search term in the box in the toolbar.
This was very handy, and if it isn't a deliberate change for some
technical reason, would it not be a good idea to
Fabien,
In the end I got the job done with String.Remove rather than
String.Extract(). In this particular case it was easier to remove the
elements already processed and then pass the remainder in a recursive
call to the same procedure for further processing.
In the short time I had to experiment
That's the one Sebastian,
my_array.Copy(6,3)
should do it. Thanks.
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Let's say I have a string array with 12 elements. I want to pass some
of these to a function for processing. What notation do I use to
specify, say, the "sub-array" comprising elements 6, 7 and 8 of the 12
element array?
At the moment I can only do it by creating a new array of appropriate
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Not many of us are...:-(
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Try it out on me! My desktop is en_GB and is pretty much free from
all en_US influences. I would even be happy to hack a couple of
translations for you from Fingrish to en_, US and GB.
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Are you absolutely certain you are not using en_GB? Historically
speaking, most European schools will have taught en_GB, though perhaps
with an American accent;-)
I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you. The choice of
language variant for English speakers (and perhaps also French
(fr/ca/b
ps
I just found this in the Language.module file in the IDE source:
Name["en"] = ("English (common)")
Name["en_GB"] = ("English (United Kingdom)")
Name["en_US"] = ("English (U.S.A.)")
Name["en_AU"] = ("English (Australia)")
Name["en_CA"] = ("English (Canada)")
I reckon that answers the
Sorry, I thought it would help to show why these translations are
necessary for programs which may be expected to be widely used.
I cannot think of any good reason to delete an en_GB translation,
unless it is incomplete or incorrect or simply abandoned. If you wish
to cater only for en_US then by
Would the gb.xml stuff make the task any easier? Just askin' - This
might be something I would like to try some time.
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Ah but, mine DOES have unlimited warnings - and I paid... just blood,
sweat and tears. Trouble is I am sloppy. And I am overly confident in
my ability to code without making a single mistake, despite decades of
evidence to the contrary!
If you do it my way you never see the warnings - neat trick,
Hmm. OK, I'll bite.
In general, though with many subtle exceptions, all forks of English
sound pretty much like English. When it is being spoken it is not
always important (or even polite?) to notice the differences - just be
aware of them and make whatever allowances for grammar or translations
f
Thanks guys, it is even more embarrassing because I thought I had
checked that when I was re-organising the code. Now that I think about
it, it is the only logical explanation. Boy I must have been tired!
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Sorry to spam the list - forgot to restore the diagnostic "Stop" for
"Public findme as String[]". Corrected in this one.
Simple instructions;
1. Use the file chooser to locate/select this program's FMain.class
2. Choose a conversion option - the default "mangled" is OK
3. Create a "Watch" for the
Well, I'm still tired but the "Public" error was annoying me. Fixed it
now - out by one in a string internal position calculation. The array
detection is still strangely broken though.
R
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Benoît,
I am quite confident that the problem really lies somewhere in my
logic. The program is producing other erroneous output since I
"safely" removed some repetition of code blocks. Perhaps it wasn't so
safe as I thought.
I will look at this again when I am not so tired, with special
attentio
>
> It's impossible to guess without seeing the source code.
>
I know you are right, but I have been staring at it, stepping through
it, adding checking variables and testing for hours and I cannot find
a thing wrong with it.
I know it must be something I have done, because it used to work, but
I
Something is happening to a variable in a program I am writing which I
cannot explain and can find no reason behind it.
A public boolean is set in one procedure and tested in another in the
same class file. In between, it is changed, somehow, from True to
False.
If I set the default value of the
> You must ensure that:
>
> - It is correctly indented.
OK there I think. Everything is appropriately indented. The size of
the indent is tweakable in the editor preferences. I set it to 4
spaces as I am used to that.
>
> - Variable, functions... have good names.
All of the functions (apart from
Problem with that is that the second "Print ii" statement is executed,
even if the loop is skipped (because of initial conditions). The
SuperBASIC version would print nothing if the initial loop conditions
indicate it should be skipped
The Gambas equivalent would be more like
For ii = 0 to 254
>Just installed a rebuilt >>>3.3.2<<< rpm and my test project passed with
>flying colours (or colors?)
It was just a typo in the original message now corrected.
The "flying colours" reference is an idiomatic expression of possibly
military origin which originally meant something like "proudly
ide
or even, 3.3.2 :-(
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Just installed a rebuilt 3.2.2 rpm and my test project passed with
flying colours (or colors?)
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Awestruck.
No other word for it, I'm stricken with awe.
Thank you
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Sinclair BASIC on the QL used to have a FOR loop epilogue which could
be used to handle this sort of thing. A simple FOR loop was
FOR index = start TO stop
do some stuff
END FOR index
The NEXT control could be added to create the epilogue so:
FOR byte = 0 TO 254
PRINT index
NEXT index
Sinclair BASIC on the QL used to have a FOR loop epilogue which could
be used to handle this sort of thing. A simple FOR loop was
FOR index = start TO stop
On 30/09/2012, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> I think all Basics work this way!
>
> Test with any basic:
>
> For ii = 1 to 10
> Next
>
> Print ii
Just guessing here, but valid values for Byte are 0-255. From
observation I have seen that FOR loops terminate with the loop index
at final value+1. For Byte that would probably be zero (if it just
wraps around from 255 to 0) so there is no reason to terminate the
loop.
Richard
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Some more information, but I am not sure what it means...
I have written a rudimentary testbed program to emulate the operation
of the colour chooser thing and it works in both qt4 and gtk modes.
What it does:
1. Take a screenshot of the area around the mouse to prove that screenshots work
2. Cli
I don't think this has been mentioned before. The colour chooser thing
has an eyedropper tool which is no longer working in the gtk version.
The qt4 one still does what it should.
The effect is that as soon as you click on the eyedropper tool the
system stops responding to mouse clicks, though oth
Benoît, the build was successful. I just have a few tweaks to make to
the rpm spec file before I test the installation.
Richard
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OK Sebastian,
I have done a bit of research (spelt g-o-o-g-l-e) and I have decided
to set a constant string as "LANG=C" and add it to the front of those
shell commands my program issues where the text of the sub-processes'
output is important.
My reasoning is that if that changes the text I am che
On 23/09/2012, Tobias Boege wrote:
> I successfully built the main/ directory from untouched trunk/ and
> tags/3.3.0/ trees. Where do you get your sources from? Do you mean an RPM
> or
> a gcc 'spec file'? The former, I wouldn't know what to do with, sorry. In
> this case, if I were you and knew R
Thanks Benoît,
rebuilding now.
more later ...?
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On 23/09/2012, Sebastian Kulesz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:08 PM, RICHARD WALKER
> wrote:
>> So I was wondering, does it make sense to re-code a project so that
>> strings, or string constants are used for repeated fragments of text?
>> Might such an approach ac
Hi Benoît
I am on my first attempt to build 3.3.0 and I have this error:
Making all in data
make[5]: Entering directory
`/home/richard/rpm/BUILD/gambas3-3.3.0/main/lib/data'
CC gb_data_la-main.lo
CC gb_data_la-c_list.lo
c_list.c:25:18: fatal error: list.h: No such file or directory
co
Greetings to all,
I have been experimenting with the Translate option in the IDE. Just
for fun, I took a current mini-project which is nearing completion and
marked it up for translation. At only 116 strings it is not too
daunting a task. To make it even easier I elected to start with a
translatio
I understand, at least enough to get rid of the ragged effect. Now
both qt4 and gtk versions use PaintImage with virtually identical
smooth results. _That_ is a result.
I had been using the image installed as a picture on FLogo in order to
access it easily from FMain by using Flogo.Picture.Image.
> If Component.IsLoaded("gb.gtk") Then ...
It's a good thing that you are a programmer 'cos you think like one :-))
I'm less analytical - I just look at the spinbox on the screen and
know straight away!
R
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On 18/09/2012, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> This is an internal QT4/GTK+/LXDE stuff I think. By default, Gambas
> tells the window manager that the window top-left corner coordinates are
> 0,0. Then the window manager does what it wants. Maybe GTK+ internally
> check the panels and fix the Gambas coor
You are too kind. I've been calling myself every kind of idiot under the sun:)
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I am now convinced I am getting too old for this game.
I managed to package a broken project.
One critical line is missing from the copy button handler. Here is the
whole thing:
Public Sub CopyButton_Click()
Dim tmpImage As Image
If FLogo.Visible Then
With FLogo.Picture
Funny thing is I thought I understood enough about environment
variables to see me through. It never occurred to me that the
environment for that setting would be restricted to the IDE, but now
you mention it, it makes sense. If it were visible in my user
environment it might affect every Gambas pr
Benoît,
1. Please ignore all comments relating to the behaviour of the
FontChooser thing. I am coding this as a minor birthday present for my
brother who likes things to be done for him in a program, so I have
made the FontChooser a bit more ... adaptable and so caused the
runaway expansion of the
Benoît,
Sorry for the delay in "confirming" my findings with your PaintImage
version of my problem's solution. Sadly it took me hours (and more
hours) to get it working. I tried all sorts of tricks to make it
produce an undistorted/uncorrupted version on the clipboard of the
rendered image but noth
And joyful thanks to Benoît too,
If I interpret that correctly, that will also convert any partially
transparent areas to fully opaque. I haven't tested it yet (soon to be
remedied) but my guess is that it will look much better than my
simplistic method where, for example, anti-alias artifacts may
Success. Thank you William. #
It was the Color.Transparent that did not work. From reading the docs
it says that this constant has a value of -1. My black screen
(inverted Alpha, but don't ask me what that means) has pixels with the
value &HFF00. So your fix works when I write it like this
$h
Shucks. Too bad - it looked so simple, and it was quick. Trouble is,
it didn't do anything - at least, nothing discernible in the result -
still a black background.
On the up-side, I know that my crude and slow
"If pixel_colour = &HFF00 Then pixel_colour = &H00FF"
will actually do what I n
That looks like it will beat the socks off my pixel by pixel
examination and change (still running after 2-3 hours). I'll try it
now and get back with the result as soon as ...
Richard
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I have hacked the OnScreenDisplay example project to allow me to
display user-entered text instead of the time, and to permit
interactive tweaking of colours and depth of 3D effect and font size.
I also added a way to save the result to a png file and now I am
trying to copy it to the clipboard as
Sorry Bruce, it appeared during a long series of searches for
mimeapps.list and mimeinfo.cache information. I tried to retrace my
footsteps and here is one link which I definitely visited (though it
doesn't look too familiar today) which says the same thing...
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-
I am guessing the extended search for the mimeapps.list files will
work for Bruce.
I searched in vain for any sign of mimeinfo.cache in any Mageia rpm.
Then I discovered (thankyou Google) that the file is created when you
run update-desktop-database. It would appear that some desktops are
more lik
Incidentally, I have a mimeapps.list at /usr/share/applications which
contains only an [Added Associations] section with what looks like
Mageia-specific entries for www browsers, text editors and a package
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I have checked the three locations for file association lists
mentioned on the page referenced above. I can confitm Bruce's findings
on my Mageia2 system. The ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
file has the two sections [Default Applications] and [Added
Associations] where the latter is thos
Benoît,
I found a reference to application opening by mime type in LXDE a few
days ago when I was hunting for details of xdg and LXDE.
Have a look at http://d.hatena.ne.jp/masami256/20111016/1318735685
Although it is about patching the xdg-utils script, it provides
helpful information on how LXDE
Wow, thanks for the results info. I have started to look at the
Desktop component implementation and I am only beginning to get a
trembling feel for what it uses to do what it does.
I'll study your response in greater detail but your two straws are
very similar to the ones I suspect are hiding my
So it's a race then :-))
Not taking any bets though.
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Good evening Benoît,
No doubt you are right. I thought it might be connected with the level
of support in LXDE for xdg and the Portland project (I wish I knew
what that means) but I got the same results with other xdg compliant
desktops; IceWM, awesome, and a couple of others I can't remember now.
There is more to this problem than I first thought. It is not just
DesktopWatcher that I do not understand, but some of Desktop and
DesktopWindow too.
I have built a quick'n'dirty test harness to display some of the
difficulties I have encountered. It is attached.
It may be simplest to list what
... or it does but it just won't tell me what it sees:-(
Using Gambas 3.1.1 on Mageia 2 64-bit with desktop (LXDE) spread
across two monitors.
I am trying various techniques to discover if a program starts on the
desktop. My latest effort tries to use a desktop watcher set up as
MyDesktopWatcher
Spam, I reckon.
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Perfect! That's the one. I don't think I have ever seen that checkbox
before. It must.
I'm not sure what those cryptic commands do
>$ gbc3 -ga
>$ gbx3
but I will look them up and learn a bit more.
Thanks Tobi.
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I have an application which interacts with two or three other
non-gambas applications and daemons and I am not absolutely certain
these interactions are completely robust.
I had littered the code with PRINT statements to get console output at
various critical points of the application. Soon it got
Hi Wally,
Colour me curious too. I just checked my package manager to see if
these "migration" tools are available and the answer is no; not for
Mageia at any rate.
I did see that my "Make Installation package" Gambas wizard indicates
"makepkg" is needed for Archlinux and only "debhelper" for Debia
Wally,
You have made me curious. I always thought that OpenSuse used RPM type
packages. Is it the case that you are building for an alien (to
OpenSuse) distribution?
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Pardon me for butting in, but I wonder if you have tried a Gambas
short (16 bits).
The last time I can recall seeing a byte or character passed as an
8bit value I was using a Z80! I have a vague recollection that the
Lattice C compiler for the MC68008 used the bottom word (16 bits) in a
register f
Hi Abbat,
I have just checked the two provided label types; TextLabel and Label
They behave slightly differently in providing multi-line text (which
is possible for both).
If you enter multi-line text using the Properties form in the IDE in
Label1.Text then the lines will appear as entered in the
OK, that is LOTS better. Not perfect, but many more messages are
coming through _when_ expected and not always two at a time.
Furthermore, all of the messages are arriving in the Read event -
nothing in the Error event anymore.
I'll need to do more testing to be sure I understand if it is
repeata
Hi Benoît, Bruce,
Yes, the READ and ERROR (and finally KILL) events are all raised as
expected, just not as often as I would want.
In another part of the program I use
JCap = Shell Command For Input Output As "Jack_Capture"
so that I can send it a gb.NewLine to control another mode of the
shell
I am having difficulty reading the output from a shell command when it
is generated. Something somewhere seems to be storing the messages
until it is ready to give them to my READ and ERROR event handlers.
The command is invoked with:
JCap = Shell Command For Read As "Jack_Capture"
My Jack_Captu
This isn't something I have ever worried about before, but just
recently I have been playing with form and control colours and I have
hit a problem.
I can change the colour of a form or a button or other displayed item.
I can change the foreground text colour too so I get decent contrast
if I am u
There is a hidden file in your project's directory called .project.
The description is in there, I believe.
Richard
On 23/06/2012, sundar j wrote:
> I made my first test pakage with out proper description. Since it was for
> testing, project description set as default "This program is written in
Thank you Benoît. Revision 4853 built and installed. The rpm of my
application now correctly reflects the selected requirement for
gb.form.stock. That would have avoided the problem my brother
reported.
regards,
Richard
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> Le 22/06/2012 22:38, RICHARD WALKER a écrit :
>> Hmm, some of those footballers are pretty good actors...
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> PS I will hold off on the bug report. As I understand it there is
>> EITHER a need to implement an rpm install dependency
Hmm, some of those footballers are pretty good actors...
Richard
PS I will hold off on the bug report. As I understand it there is
EITHER a need to implement an rpm install dependency for gb.form on
gb.form.stock, OR to investigate why the loader reports an error
instead of allowing a blank icon.
Good evening Benoît, so you're not watching the football either:-)
This is something I should report to Mageia packagers, yes?
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I have been investigating a similar problem with a package I build for
limited distribution (so far only my brother uses this little
program).
I too have found that the Gambas-created package (rpm in my case) does
not i
1. your log files have zero length. Try uploading them again.
2. just guessing, I had a problem with this before, are your gambas3
libraries all installed in the usual place for 64-bit libraries?
Richard
On 13/06/2012, Karl Reinl wrote:
> Salut,
>
> can't start the IDE any more!!!
>
> [System]
>
On 12/06/2012, Grant Taylor wrote:
> reinvent the wheel. I have put together a Media viewer program in Gambas
> using the Mplayer plug-in. I need to display two channel VU meter
> display within this viewer.
If you want to use volume unit metering then the best place I can
think of to find out ho
Do you need the syntax highlighting to be baked in? Can you not just
use Kate (in KDE) or Gedit with a suitable set of rules for their
existing highlighting mechanisms?
I remember a few years ago when I was using Gambas in a project for my
night-class in software engineering I was able to get synt
If you were using Jack then I would suggest you simply use an existing
meter such as meterbridge (http://plugin.org.uk/meterbridge/) and
perhaps embed it in you Gambas program's window. That would give you
the choice of DPM, analogue VU or Peak so you could pick whichever
suites your layout.
If yo
With apologies to all-who-know-more-about-this-than-me (or just "all")...
Joe, you have a problem with managing a growing Gambas codebase and
you think having an #include method in Gambas would help you cope. We
are agreed that if it were added then it would operate before the
compiler kicks in to
I am trying to call a DBus method which takes one parameter and returns many.
The method details are:
If I use this:
Dim graph_details As New Variant[]
If 0 < CurrentGraph Then graph_details = Jack.GetGraph(CurrentGraph)
...then graph_details[0] will return the numeric id for th
>
> Gambas 3.2 will be released soon, so maybe it is not worth it?
>
> The bug was in gb.gtk. I misunderstood the GDK functions about monitors
> & screens and how the full screen size must be computed. Now gb.gtk and
> gb.qt4 should behave the same.
I think I might agree that waiting for the 3.2 r
-xinerama Xephyr window), and it works everywhere!
Thank you, Benoît, for the fix. May I ask where the problem was found?
I would very much like to have a go at patching the Gambas3
distributed by Mageia and maybe get it into a Mageia bug-fix update.
Richard
On 05/06/2012, RICHARD WALKER wrote:
> Ro
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