I just started exploring 'geany' and so far, it looks promising. But when I try to open a file on our IBM I computer it fails to load the file. Geany shows the files in the shared folder that contains the file I want, but when I select it to open, nothing happens. No error messages. Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 03:05, Pryor, Mike via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
I just started exploring 'geany' and so far, it looks promising. But when I try to open a file on our IBM I computer it fails to load the file. Geany shows the files in the shared folder that contains the file I want, but when I select it to open, nothing happens. No error messages. Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Did you check the status bar?
What OS are you running on?
What network file system is in use?
What type of file are you trying to open?
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Hello,
On 12.11.23 01:23, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 03:05, Pryor, Mike via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
I just started exploring 'geany' and so far, it looks promising. But when I try to open a file on our IBM I computer it fails to load the file. Geany shows the files in the shared folder that contains the file I want, but when I select it to open, nothing happens. No error messages. Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Did you check the status bar?
What OS are you running on?
What network file system is in use?
What type of file are you trying to open?
In addition: What's an IBM I? Is this the one related to AS/400?
Cheers, Frank
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 20:48, Frank Lanitz via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
Hello,
On 12.11.23 01:23, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 03:05, Pryor, Mike via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
I just started exploring 'geany' and so far, it looks promising. But when I try to open a file on our IBM I computer it fails to load the file. Geany shows the files in the shared folder that contains the file I want, but when I select it to open, nothing happens. No error messages. Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Did you check the status bar?
What OS are you running on?
What network file system is in use?
What type of file are you trying to open?
In addition: What's an IBM I? Is this the one related to AS/400?
As Far As Google Can Tell (AFAGCT) its now a proprietary OS for IBM Power processors. Since it is not *x who knows what it does.
Cheers Lex
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On 2023-11-11 06:58, Pryor, Mike via Users wrote:
Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Reminds me of a mildly annoying issue—in that Geany will refuse to load a file with nulls or other "binary" data in it.
Sort of understandable, but it doesn't do anything but shrug it off. You have to take the file over to gedit or something to get a proper error about character encoding, etc. I long got used to it but it is a problem for new users.
Not sure if that is your problem, but may be part of it.
The other thing is that GTK apps typically don't handle opening from URLs, so make sure you have a properly mounted filesystem first. Either with fuse on UNIXy OSs or a Windows Drive Letter rather than UNC path, etc.
-Mike
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 04:32, Mike Miller via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
On 2023-11-11 06:58, Pryor, Mike via Users wrote:
Geany silently ignores my request to load the file. Rather rude behavior, I should say.
Reminds me of a mildly annoying issue—in that Geany will refuse to load a file with nulls or other "binary" data in it.
Sort of understandable, but it doesn't do anything but shrug it off.
There is a message to status and status bar, its not silently shrugged off. Since normally Geany will actually try all encodings it knows to see if they will work it does not show error messages from the converters unless debug is set or the encoding is selected in the open dialog.
That said, the open/encoding code has grown over time into a multi-headed hydra so would not be surprised if there are not "undocumented features" in it.
You have to take the file over to gedit or something to get a proper error about character encoding, etc. I long got used to it but it is a problem for new users.
Not sure if that is your problem, but may be part of it.
The other thing is that GTK apps typically don't handle opening from URLs, so make sure you have a properly mounted filesystem first. Either with fuse on UNIXy OSs or a Windows Drive Letter rather than UNC path, etc.
-Mike
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On 2023-11-21 17.33, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
There is a message to status and status bar, its not silently shrugged off.
Never seen that before, interesting. Not silent perhaps but very quiet. Compare to gedit or xed which brings up a big highlighted banner.
Unfortunately the message disappears from the status bar at the first click and I'm a compulsive clicker. Not great as an exclusive place for errors it seems.
Have never really used the message window due to editing interpreted languages and vertical space being precious.
-Mike
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 at 04:55, Mike Miller via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
On 2023-11-21 17.33, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
There is a message to status and status bar, its not silently shrugged off.
Never seen that before, interesting. Not silent perhaps but very quiet. Compare to gedit or xed which brings up a big highlighted banner.
Unfortunately the message disappears from the status bar at the first click and I'm a compulsive clicker. Not great as an exclusive place for errors it seems.
Geany does use the info bar for some things, a failure to open could be added if "somebody" did it. But the info bar could be very annoying if it was overused.
Cheers Lex
Have never really used the message window due to editing interpreted languages and vertical space being precious.
-Mike _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@lists.geany.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.geany.org