Gambas ONE

Try a different method: -

1/. Create the logo in a drawing app. I used LibreOffice Draw
2/. Export the image to a PDF
3/. In Gambas shell "lp -d PrinterName /Path/to/pdf.pdf"

Done

This took me 10 mins to create and print on a Brother QL-570

Thanks, Bruce. This is now working as I expected.

I can use a shell command without issue: - Public sUrl As String = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9sqZZOiR0&t=66s" Public Sub Form_Open() Shell "youtube-dl " & sUrl Wait ''This works End I would like to do this in a Task but when I try I get 40+ error lines like this:...

Try GridView1_Arrange(). This is triggered when the GridView has finished arranging its contents. NOTE that if you change anything or resize the Form this will be triggered.

Can't you simply call ChangeCat as the last command in _new()?

I'll check this out in the next stable release.

It may have fixed another issue with my desktop when 2 TrayIcons are showing.



Then with my AlarmTimer running: -

I've just seen mps-youtube (and others) on the command line which I think could be run from EXEC[]. Just a thought! Thanks Bill, but I have already written the player, and it uses youtube-dl to download the music I like. What I want to do is connect it to the built-in music controls that most distr...

Thanks Bruce. I think, as thatbruse says, this would not be easy. I'd need to understand dbus first.

If I go to YouTube in Chrome and play a song, a player control is available in the system tray.



I would like to access this from within Gambas.

Has anybody got any idea how to do this.

Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon Desktop

Hi Bruce,

Yes, that has fixed the [Alt]+[Tab] issue, thanks.

I clicked the option to change the setting to not show the file path and although this worked I got an error:-

The other caution I would suggest is that you NOT use a float variable to store and handle currency ... it will lead to trouble, I usually use a string or integer to store currency.

I have to agree with this. I always store currency as an integer, much safer.