Re: [Gnumed-devel] Freemdiams on GNUmed(Windows)

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Monday, October 31, 2011 04:45:21 PM Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 03:59:07PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > What is the state of FreeDiams support from within GNUmed on the Windows
> > platform ?
> 
> The same as on Linux, code-wise.
> 
> > From the log of GNUmed 0.9.11 it looks like it is only looking in
> > unix-style directories rather then C:\Programme\FreeDiams
> 
> Can you send me a log ?
> 
> This is what gmMedication.py::cFreeDiamsInterface.__detect_binary() does:
> 
>       #--------------------------------------------------------
>       def __detect_binary(self):
> 
>               if self.path_to_binary is not None:
>                       return True
> 
>               found, cmd = gmShellAPI.find_first_binary(binaries = [
>                       r'/usr/bin/freediams',
>                       r'freediams',
>                       r'/Applications/FreeDiams.app/Contents/MacOs/FreeDiams',
>                       r'C:\Program Files\FreeDiams\freediams.exe',
>                       r'c:\programs\freediams\freediams.exe',
>                       r'freediams.exe'
>               ])
> 
>               if found:
>                       self.path_to_binary = cmd
>                       return True
> 
>               try:
>                       self.custom_path_to_binary
>               except AttributeError:
>                       _log.error('cannot find FreeDiams binary, no custom 
> path set')
>                       return False
> 
>               if self.custom_path_to_binary is None:
>                       _log.error('cannot find FreeDiams binary')
>                       return False
> 
>               found, cmd = gmShellAPI.detect_external_binary(binary =
> self.custom_path_to_binary) if found:
>                       self.path_to_binary = cmd
>                       return True
> 
>               _log.error('cannot find FreeDiams binary')
>               return False
>       #--------------------------------------------------------
> 
> find_first_binary() calls gmShellAPI.py::detect_external_binary()
> on each of the candidates.
> 
> > Actually now that I write this I see that it is searching the PATH
> > variable.
> 
> Among other things, yes.
> 
> > Looks like placing c:\Programme\FreeDiams in the PATH makes it work
> 
> Sure, and if you send me a list of c:\programs\ in all of
> the world's 300 major languages (or else an explanation of
> what the heck Microsoft was thinking) we can improve that.
> 

I am afraid I could only find 299 but I will send you a log so the path that is 
set in the GUI could be checked.

Sebastian

> Karsten