On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 11:34:17 PM EDT, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 May 2018 at 12:54, Joe McCarron via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 10:44:45 PM EDT, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Lets go back to absolute basics, which file are you editing with Geany? the pythonbuild.py file or the .ino file? Is the pythonbuild.py file a tool you are trying to run that processes the .ino file? Yes, The pythonbuild.py file is the tool. The file i am working on in Geany is the *.ino file. So, the working dir is based on the *.ino file as that is opened in Geany and the py file is not.
Ok, that removes some confusion.
So the command is `python /home/joe/pythonbuild.py %f` and nothing in the working directory column of the 'Set Build Commands' dialog.
The file i have open sets the %d & %f (directory and file) which is used as the working directory part. I moved the pythonbuild.py to the working directory exactlywhere the file is and I still got the invalid working directory error.but like you said it doenst matter as long as it finds the py file.
What that does is it makes the tool part (the `python /home/joe/pythonbuild.py` part) absolute, so it doesn't depend on where it is run, and Geany will substitute the %f with the currently open filename and run the command in that file's directory.
Thats the normal way Geany is intended to be set up, commands are absolute (or found by PATH as python is) and the command is run local to the file you are editing. Since Geany will save the current file when you invoke a build command that makes it all "just work" :) Yes, I now know how Geany works as I have been fighting this for a wholeday. I don't know what it doesnt like. I may just do another installation of it. I have another issue trying to create filetypes for *.ino files (arduino) but thatdoesnt seem to work. I have been ALL OVER the manual and I dont know what I am doing wrong.
I will start another topic though and not include it in this. Thanks for your help. I had just installed linux and got rid of windows so thats another hurdle I am working with. Way different than Windows. Windows is like a personnal computer linux is like working at a terminal and there's a main frame somewhere on campus ; )
Cheers Lex
Cheers Lex
On 23 May 2018 at 12:01, Joe McCarron via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 9:34:41 PM EDT, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote: pythonbuild.py is in /home/joe
What directory is 'pythonbuild.py' located in and what was the working directory when you ran the CLI command?
has always been in /home/joe I am running the CLI from there also the working directory is dev/Arduino/sample/sample.ino which is relative to my ~ location. The abs path of the working directory would be /home/joe/dev/Arduino/sample/sample.ino
If your command is 'python pythonbuild.py dev/Arduino/sample/sample.ino' then it must be executed in the directory that contains 'pythonbuild.py' since the path is given relative to the working directory (and so is 'dev/Arduino/sample/sample.ino' but we havn't gotten to it yet :).
yes, that is true
Geany commands (by default) run with a working directory that is the directory of the current file displayed in the edit area, you can change this in the "working directory" column of the "set build commands" dialog to make it a fixed location such as the directory where 'pythonbuild.py' lives.
so your saying move pythonbuild to my working directory, correct ? Ok, I will try that. So maybe the problem is the there is no way for the working directory to get to reference the up stream directory ? as in its ok to drill down but not up ?? I will try try moving the *.py file to the working directory.
Yes, so the working directory is just use %d%f so the whole thing in Geany python home/joe/pythonbuild.py %d/%f
but I get Invalid working directory "/home/joe/dev/Arduino/4X20OLED/4X20OLED.ino"
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