Oh, I waited long enough. Here is the work around ...
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WW = Desktop.FindWindow(WindowTitle)
' WW[?] ALWAYS returns an 'out of bounds' error regardless of what
value "?" is.
' However WW does hold a valid Window ID
WorkStr = Str$(WW)
' this gives us a string of the form "(Integer[] 0xc25688)"
' now we need to extract HEX digits and convert them to an integer
p = InStr(WorkStr, "0x")
WorkStr = Mid(WorkStr, InStr(WorkStr, "0x") + 2)
WorkStr = Left(WorkStr, Len(WorkStr) - 1)
n = Val("&H" & WorkStr)
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Regards,
Lewis
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:55:48 -0500
From: T Lee Davidson <t.lee.david...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Problem with EXEC and GB.Desktop
To: gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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On 11/26/2014 07:45 AM, Lewis Balentine wrote:
> /' Gambas module file
> ' uses:
> ' gb
> ' gb.desktop
> ' gb.desktop.x11(automatically selected by gb.desktop)
> ' gb.image(automatically selected by gb.desktop)
> ' gb.qt4 (alternates are: gb.gtk, gb.gtk3, gb.gui)
>
> Public Sub Main()
> Dim S0, S1, S2 As String
> Dim ww As Integer[]
> Dim n, WinId As Integer
>
> S0 = "/usr/bin/mate-terminal"
> S1 = "--title=" & Chr(34) & "Exec Terminal" & Chr(34)
> S2 = "DISPLAY=:0.0"
> Exec [S0, S1] With [S2]
> ' at list 0.25 second delay required between exec and Desktop.FindWindow
> ' may vary according to hardware
> Wait 2
> ww = Desktop.FindWindow("Shell Terminal")
> n = ww.Count - 1
> 'WinId is the same as xwininfo id
> WinId = ww[n]
> WinId = ww[0]
> Desktop.ActiveWindow = WinId
> Desktop.SendKeys("ls -l \n")
> Quit
> End
> /----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
> /
>
> /With ALL component options ww.Count returns 0 although ww[0] holds a
> valid ID.
> With ALL component options *ww[0] *generates *?out of bounds? error*..
> With gb.gui.opengl (select GTK+3) the program crashes at the first line
> of code.
I think maybe you are not waiting long enough. I have to "Wait 5" (on my
admittedly slow system) to keep from getting the "out of bounds error".
When I do that, all works just fine.
--
Lee
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