From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2010-08-30T04:09:44+09:00
Subject: Re: In Shoes, whye does ask_open_file run a shoes app?

Hey Ed-

This is... very strange. And certainly a bug. What platform are you
on, and are you using Policeman or Rasins? I couldn't recreate this on
OSX Policeman. Using these two scripts: http://gist.github.com/556579
, when I run test1, and open test2, the alert returns the text of
test2.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ed Howland <ed.howland@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a bit of code inside Shoes.app block, like this
>
> keypress do |k|
>  case k
>  # ...
>  when :alt_o
>    @contents = File.read(ask_open_file)
>  end
> end
>
> it runs the file (if it is a shoes app). Otherwise, it seems to do
> nothing and returns nil.
>
> If you run it outside of the Shoes.app block, pas in the manual
> example] it works ok.
>
> Does Shoes.app set the context for ask_open_file to be able to run new
> apps? How can I change this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
> Ed Howland
> http://greenprogrammer.wordpress.com
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>
>