Just got the latest update of Gambas 3.14.1 and a program that has worked for years no longer works. When it tries to read a data file I get the file is a read only file error.  I checked the files and they are not read only so I am baffled by this error. Here is a copy of the input portion of the program.

I get the error on the Line BoxName = ProgName

I found the answer after doing some research.  Seems the old way is no longer supported and a new way that has been there is now the required way to do arrays.

Old Way 3.14.0

<COLOR color="#0000FF">Public BoxName[43] As String
Public BoxCmd[43] As String </COLOR>

New Way 3.14.1

<COLOR color="#0000FF">Public BoxName As New String[43]
Public BoxCmd As New String[43]</COLOR>

The Later work fine.

As a general point (and this may be irrelevant in this case) arrays are objects, so need to be declared and instantiated.


I'm still running 3.14.0 so would be interested to know if this still works on the latest version.

Is this the code as the code shown above has errors?


I don't get an error with this code.

 Yea it's basically the same but was declared as a public array outside of the form open code.  It's part of a quick launcher program I wrote years ago back with Gambas 3.10.  After I got the updated help file I came to see after searching it what the problem was.  However you did give me an idea on how to improve the program, thank you sir.  I kind of liked the Gnome full screen program but didn't like that you had no control of the order of the icons.  I elected to make a smaller version of the menu that you could setup the icons as you saw fit.  Mine has the most important, most used first and lesser but used program last.  The icons are displayed with corresponding names below.  You click on the icon and the program launches. All icons are displayed in a scroll area so you can scroll through them.  It was a choice whether to use a global module to pass variables or use the Public statement.