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1. Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by Jesse Adkins <Tassadar29 at lycos.com> Jun 28, 2006
• 691 views
• Last edited Jun 29, 2006

Well, i've been trying to do the same thing as before. I've realized that the
reason for most of my problems before was because I was copying code that
had been custom made and other such things.

I finally cut down the code this which I think is about right

procedure load_file( sequence file )
	object in
	integer fn
		fn = open(file,"r")
		in = gets(fn)
		while sequence(in) do
			in = in[1..length(in)-1]
			load_file( in )
			in = gets( fn )
		end while
		close(fn)
end procedure
procedure on_open( atom this, atom event_type, atom id, atom event )
	sequence file
	file = file_selector( Starter, "Select a project or file to open",  {"","","", 
	"WaXy Documents|*.WaX|All Files (*.*)|*.*;*"},wxOPEN)
	load_file(file)
end procedure

Once again, I took this off of the wxIDE.

This time, I get a much different error whenever I try to open a file (any file)

bad file number (-1)

The .err file goes way past that but I think it's all because of the bad file
number.

I've tried everything that I can think of to try and fix it and nothing works.
Can anyone help me fix this problem?

Any and all help appreciated.

3. Re: Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by Jesse Adkins <Tassadar29 at lycos.com> Jun 29, 2006
• 627 views

Hi

fn = open(file, "r"), is returning -1 for fn (hence the bad file number - its
an error indicator

This means open() can't find the file

this means that the file sequence being passed to open_file is nor correct

put a puts(1, file) in the, at the beginning of open_file(), see whats being
passed to it.

Chris



When I do that, it stops me before the file_selector comes up with a new 
message

variable file has not been assigned a value.


I took a look in the .err file and this is what it told me in a nutshell...

file = {67'C',58':',92'\',68'D',111'o',99'c',117'u',109'm',101'e',110'n',
116't',115's',32' ',97'a',110'n',100'd',32' ',...and so on.
It's trying to give the file path by the looks of it. (C:\Documents and...)
in = <no value>
fn = -1

5. Re: Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jun 29, 2006
• 616 views

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:20:35 -0700, Jesse Adkins
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>}}}
<eucode>
>procedure load_file( sequence file )
>	object in
>	integer fn
>		fn = open(file,"r")
>		in = gets(fn)
>		while sequence(in) do
>			in = in[1..length(in)-1]
>			load_file( in )
></eucode>
{{{

That is pretty much an infinite loop. At the top of the ex.err you
should see fn=-1 and file=???, which will be something other than a
filename, which it is trying to open, and it should be obvious from
whatever ??? is what went wrong, or a file is missing/misspelt.

The ex.err is your friend and usually indicates where the error lies
in just the first few lines. Do not be put off just because it is a
bit long. Instead when looking at the code which has gone wrong, and
you wonder 'so what is the value of filename then?', go to the ex.err
and use the find function, easy.

I assume that file_selector returns a file list in the form
{"C:\MyStuff\Project1.WaX"} so start with (untested!):

file=file_selector(...)
	for i=1 to length(file) do
		load_project(file[i])
	end for

(or perhaps just load_project(file[1]) if no multi-select)

Assuming that each .WaX file contains a list of other files to load,
some of which may also be projects:

procedure load_project(sequence filename)
integer fn
object in
	-- start with a quick sanity check
	if match(".WaX",filename)!=length(filename)-3 then
		puts(1,"not a project!\n")
		?9/0
	end if
	fn= open(filename,"r")
	while 1 do
		in = gets(fn)
		if atom(in) then exit end if
		in = in[1..length(in)-1]
		if match(".WaX",in)=length(in)-3 then
			-- it's a sub-project
			load_project(in)
		else
			-- it's something else
			load_file_or_something_else(in)
		end if
	end while
end procedure

(Again, if a .Wax cannot contain other .WaX files, the above is a bit
over-complicated.)

HTH,
Pete

7. Re: Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by ChrisBurch2 <crylex at freeuk.co.uk> Jun 29, 2006
• 618 views
• Last edited Jun 30, 2006

Hi

Debugging code : what are you expecting vs what are you getting

1. The filename should be a valid path and filename.

test this

procedure load_project(sequence filename)
integer fn
object in

puts(1, filename)
--do you get the correct output here

	-- start with a quick sanity check
	if match(".WaX",filename)!=length(filename)-3 then
		puts(1,"not a project!\n")
		?9/0
	end if
	fn= open(filename,"r")
	while 1 do
		in = gets(fn)
		if atom(in) then exit end if
		in = in[1..length(in)-1]
		if match(".WaX",in)=length(in)-3 then
			-- it's a sub-project
			load_project(in)
		else
			-- it's something else
			load_file_or_something_else(in)
		end if
	end while
end procedure

2. the filename is not being opened properly

try this

procedure load_project(sequence filename)
integer fn
object in

filename = "c:\\projects\\test.WaX"
--or a correct path to a file, or what SHOULD have been passed to the function
--filename = "test.WaX"
--make  sure the file exists in the folder it should be in

	-- start with a quick sanity check
	if match(".WaX",filename)!=length(filename)-3 then
		puts(1,"not a project!\n")
		?9/0
	end if
	fn= open(filename,"r")
	while 1 do
		in = gets(fn)
		if atom(in) then exit end if
		in = in[1..length(in)-1]
		if match(".WaX",in)=length(in)-3 then
			-- it's a sub-project
			load_project(in)
		else
			-- it's something else
			load_file_or_something_else(in)
		end if
	end while
end procedure

Chris

9. Re: Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jun 29, 2006
• 590 views
• Last edited Jun 30, 2006

Jesse Adkins wrote:
> 
> I actually did a little modification of my own just now. 
> }}}
<eucode>
> procedure load_project(sequence filename)
> integer fn
> object in
> 
> 	-- start with a quick sanity check
> 	if match(".rtf",filename)!=length(filename)-3 then
> 		puts(1,"not a project!\n")
> 	end if
> 	fn= open(filename,"r")
> 	while 1 do
> 		in = gets(fn)
                  if in=-1 then
                   exit
                  end if
> 		append_text(M,in)
> 	end while
> end procedure</eucode>
{{{

> (M is my TextCtrl)
> 
> The code i've got will open the file and put all of the text into the 
> TextCtrl, including the markups (the /t and /par stuff but that just needs
> a filter). However, there is another problem that arises.
> 
> I don't know how to stop append_text from getting the text in the file so, it
> eventually tries to go past what is in the file, generating a new error...
> 
> type_check failure, val is -1
> 
> I don't know how to stop the code from hitting the bottom or to check for -1.
> I've tried to set val as something and then an if statement to make it stop
> when it hits -1 but it passes it up.


Don Cole

11. Re: Open command in wxEuphoria

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Jun 30, 2006
• 659 views

Jesse Adkins wrote:
> 
> I don't know how to stop append_text from getting the text in the file so, it
> eventually tries to go past what is in the file, generating a new error...
> 
> type_check failure, val is -1
> 
> I don't know how to stop the code from hitting the bottom or to check for -1.
> I've tried to set val as something and then an if statement to make it stop
> when it hits -1 but it passes it up.

When gets reaches the end of the file, it returns -1.  You need to change 
your read loop to:

in = gets(fn)
while sequence(in) do
	append_text(M,in)
	in = gets(fn)
end while

Matt Lewis