[Gambas-user] Desktop.Open [,Wait], what does it do?

[T L. D. <t.l...@gm...>]

Hi,

Desktop.Open is quite a handy utility. Thank you for that, Benoît.


But now can anyone help me understand what Desktop.Open, with Wait=True, 
does?

The Gambas documentation does not say, and the 'xdg-open' documentation 
gives no mention of it.

I thought perhaps it might cause Desktop.Open to wait until the opened 
application terminates. But it does not.

I have tested it with Wait set to True and False, and with image and 
text files. And, the only difference I see is that Wait=True causes only 
a slight delay before Desktop.Open returns.

In both cases (True or False), Desktop.Open returns before the 
application fully launches and becomes the active window.


One more thing to clarify. Am I correct in assuming that since it is 
optional, the default would be False?


-- 
Lee
__________

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."