Hmmm, i wrote the Software with Xojo/Linux. Under Win7 it doesnt work. The Path is not found. And it looks absolutely terrible.
It’s been just 3 hours since you first post here and mentioned you were a “Xojo-starter”. That has a lot more to do with what you have at this point rather than deficiencies in Xojo. I programmed for 15 years in VB, you can pretty much get it to looking and working like you want, just takes a little time to get used to new things.
I started posting after one day of hard work. The actual solution saves the ini file in a special folder. That is dangerous because i have different versions for different customers/projects and i need a simple txt file direct in the working directory (?).
I think this problem is to easy to explain.
The deficites in Xojo, the slow speed of the GUI and a lot of fatal bugs (type single = integer !!!) makes it not easy to work with that. If it looks in Linux perfect but in Windows absolutely ugly, we are forced to switch back to VB6.0/ .NET 
But we want to work with Xojo!
No, you don’t.
If you try to do that your program will fail on Windows 7 upwards.
And a VB6 program that does the same would fail in the same way.
Things have changed since VB
Why do you worry about how a variable type is implemented internally?
If it holds a floating point number and returns a floating point number, it could be implemented as a lego brick internally.
And in what way is this fatal? Are you trying to copy data around using pointers?
Give him a hammer and saw, and he wants to use a brick and sharp wire… just no pleasing some people
I think you are working on a Mac? Than Xojo works fine.
But on Linux Xojo works very slow and buggy…
Example
Dim A as Single
A = 1.1
Label1.text = cstr(A)The result is 1, not 1.1 because i have to use double instead of single. Than the result is 1.1 !!!
B = A * 10 then B=10 not eleven.
The bug is not the conversion from single to string.
The bug is the type single (= integer).
This is one of x heavy Xojo-Linux bugs…
Where is your actual code?
What version of RB Linux?
It may be a new bug.
I only have RB 2008 on Linux, but this code in the open event of a window produces “11”, and the edit field shows 1.1
Dim a as single
dim b as single
a= 1.1
editfield1.text = cstr(a)
b = a*10
msgbox cstr(b)
I’m dredging this up to ask a somewhat related question. ( I did get a file to work and I appreciate all of the comments).
I just generally want to be able to create a file from within an app without having to use a save as dialog. I have made several trivial apps in VB6 and C over the years, and I often want to save things in a log file or for use by another app.
I cannot find a way to do that other than the specialfolder method – which seems to be restricted to the identified locations. I have done a fair amount of searching, but couldn’t find anything.
Thanks and sorry if I missed an obvious solution.
hj
You have to know the path of your file, so you can get a starting FolderItem, then use “Child” to drill down. For example:
dim f as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.ApplicationData
f = f.Child( "com.mycompany.app" )
if not f.Exists then
f.CreateAsFolder
end if
f = f.Child( "some file.txt" )
dim bs as BinaryStream = BinaryStream.Create( f ) // Create the fileThanks,
I think I can figure it out. It seems a bit convoluted, but i imagine that there’s a reason
hj