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Application (gb)

This class gives information about the currently running application, and grants access to the process environment and process command line.

This class is static.

Static properties

Returns an array containing the arguments passed to the program by the shell.
Args  
Set this property to TRUE to make the current application a daemon.
Daemon  
Returns the application directory.
Dir  
Returns a virtual collection of strings containing the process environment variables.
Env  
Returns the system pid (process identifier) of your program. This returns the same value as the property named Id.
Handle  
Returns the system pid (process identifier) of your program. This returns the same value as the property named Handle.
Id  
Return the application name.
Name  
Return the identifier of the parent of the current process.
ParentHandle  
Returns the application path, i.e. the directory where it resides.
Path  
Return or set the current process priority.
Priority  
Return the startup class object.
Startup  
Return if we are executing a background task.
Task  
Return the directory where the temporary files of the current process are stored.
TempDir  
Returns the title of the application being executed.
Title  
Returns the program version, as defined in the IDE project properties dialog.
Version  

Example

Imagine you start a new project in Gambas, you call this project "MyApplication", the comments are "This is the title of MyApplication", you save it at /home/user/gambas/MyApplication, and you are writing the first version, that is, 0.0.1.

If you type...

 You get... Notes
PRINT "Directory: ";
Application.Dir 		Directory: /usr/bin The current process directory, as returned by the getcwd() system function.
PRINT "Environment: ";
Application.Env.Count;
" variables" 		Environment: 77 variables
PRINT "Application handle: ";
Application.Handle 		Application handle: 8792 The process handle (or process id) is different at each execution.
PRINT "Application Id: ";
Application.Id 		Application Id: 8792 This property is a synonymous of the previous one.
PRINT "Name: ";
Application.Name 		Name: MyApplication This is the name of the application, i.e. the name of its source directory.
PRINT "Path: ";
Application.Path 		Path: /home/username/gambas/MyApplication The directory where the application runs.
PRINT "Returned value: ";
Application.Return 		0 This is the value that will be returned by your application to the operating system at exit.
PRINT "Title: ";
Application.Title 		Title: This is the title of MyApplication The title of your application, as defined in the project property dialog.
PRINT "Current app. version: ";
Application.Version 		Current app. version: 0.0.1 The application version, as defined in the project property dialog.

Special global event handlers

These event handlers must be defined in the startup class as static methods to be taken into account by the interpreter.

Application_Read Catches data sent to the standard input.

If that static method is defined in the project startup class, then the standard input is watched by the interpreter, and the method is called each time there is something to read on the standard input.

Application_Error This handler is called when an error is raised and is not handled by any CATCH, TRY or FINALLY instruction.
Since 3.5