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by BruceSteers
Saturday 25th March 2023 2:56pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: How to detect if the code is running on the IDE [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 1044

Re: How to detect if the code is running on the IDE

I used to check the filename but it's not entirely reliable if you rename the exe to not have the .gambas ext or use a link (with no ext), but then i found a better way. Check this out... https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/.if Exec is set to true for a compiled exe but not when debugging in IDE So jus...
by BruceSteers
Saturday 25th March 2023 2:52pm
Forum: General
Topic: Modifying things with Automatic inheritance (Quick HowTo)
Replies: 12
Views: 4038

Re: Modifying things with Automatic inheritance (Quick HowTo)

The code looks good , have you presses the "compile all" button?
by BruceSteers
Friday 24th March 2023 10:21am
Forum: General
Topic: Did you know?
Replies: 91
Views: 420726

Re: Did you know? ...the Recent Projects screen

Sometimes end up with 2 copies of a project in different folders, and then don't know which one to open from the Recent Projects screen. I don't know why the project path is not shown on-screen, as there is plenty of space for it. I almost submitted a commit with a change to enable this. Had that i...
by BruceSteers
Thursday 23rd March 2023 8:11pm
Forum: General
Topic: [Solved] Linux Workspace 2-4
Replies: 26
Views: 4554

Re: Linux Workspace 2-4

I am aware this answer comes a bit late, but for others who might have the same question. To answer your question, yes, it is possible to have an application start on one workspace and then move it to another. In fact, most Linux desktop environments have a built-in feature to do just that.If you w...
by BruceSteers
Thursday 23rd March 2023 4:04pm
Forum: General
Topic: Best GUI programming languages for Linux
Replies: 3
Views: 1062

Re: Best GUI programming languages for Linux

Couldn't agree more with the "Top Pros" there.

There is nothing as easy and feature rich as gambas.
by BruceSteers
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 4:52pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Open file location [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 1677

Re: Open file location

Thank you. I marked the thread as solved. You're welcome. There's other ways too. DBus for example. you can use dbus interface org.freedesktop.FileManager1 (you have to add gb.dbus component to the project for dbus functions) Public Sub OpenLocation(sFile As String) DBus["session://org.freedes...
by BruceSteers
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 2:05pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Open file location [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 1677

Re: Open file location

Bruce wrote:Keeping it open when killing the program that launched it... not so easy.
Haha so i take that back.

It was pretty easy to just put an & sign at the end of the command ;)
by BruceSteers
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 2:02pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Open file location [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 1677

Re: Open file location

i do not think nohup is what you want. I just tried this and it worked... Public Sub OpenNemo(sSelectFile As String) Shell "nemo " & Shell(sSelectFile) & "&" End Placing a & at the end of the command seemed to free the child from the parent. It was not possible to...
by BruceSteers
Tuesday 21st March 2023 9:15pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Open file location [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 1677

Re: Open file location

Hello all fellow gambasers. I will start with an introduction. I have dualbooted windows and solus linux for 5 years. I never managed to install gambas on solus. But things have changed now. I just bougth a new pc and I am now trying to survive with linux mint only. Being familiar with vb2008expres...
by BruceSteers
Saturday 18th March 2023 11:03pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Linux Mint Users - Upgrade to 21.1 Vera - FYI
Replies: 6
Views: 6896

Re: Linux Mint Users - Upgrade to 21.1 Vera - FYI

Greetings all - For any Mint users. The only issue I experienced was that collapsing of code in the editor did not work, but this has been an ongoing and intermittent issue so expect it will resolve itself in due course. Have you tried using the IDE the old way? (using QT instead of gtk3) , it migh...