I'm back!!! Yup yet another question about populating list boxes and Combo boxes. This time i need help add all mkfs* filesystems. I can do it in the terminal but i can't seem to do it in Gambas3. Essentially i would like to be able to add all the file systems for mkfs into a combobox or even a listbox.

is this difficult?

I'd love some advice.

 In the terminal it's simple, just type mkfs (tab tab) but i have no idea how to incorporate that into gambas.

or should i just add them 1 by 1 on open?

 okay i gave up, I don't doubt it can be done, just not by me. I did it manually and it works fine. But i'd still like to know if there's an alternative method.

By hitting Tab in a terminal you are searching the system PATH for mkfs* and bash shows you the results.

it does not "list mkfs filesystems" as such but it lists all found mkfs* binaries in $PATH (probably in /usr/sbin)
ls /usr/sbin/mkfs.*
one way to do that in gambas is like this…

Oops in the above code i mistakenly wrote mkdir instead of mkfs :-\
I just corrected it.


But here's another way using System.Find to get the path of mkfs then Dir the folder