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wvzuilen

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Vitor Medina Cruz

Re: Default working directory

I think it defaults to where you image is, but you can inspect FileSystem workingDirectory in Playground and see for yourself :)

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:51 PM, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to Smalltalk and Pharo, so be kind ;-) I've tried Google and
searching the world.st forum but I couldn't find the answer to the following
question:

I looks like the default working directory of my MacOS Pharo instance is a
path inside the Pharo5.0.app:
/Applications/Pharo5.0.app/Contents/Resources

This causes that Pharo can't write to that path and soms default tests are
trying to do exactly that:

testFileExists
| file |
file := File named: 'asd.txt'.
file writeStream close.
self assert: file exists.
file delete

Of course I could edit the tests, but I would rather change the default
working directory. Is this possible?

Greetings Wouter

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wvzuilen

Re: Default working directory

In the default Pharo macOS download the image file is embedded inside the Pharo.app package. Are you suggesting that I use a separate image file that I place at a location where I can write files?

Vitor Medina Cruz

Re: Default working directory

I suppose you should do that, I am relatively new to Pharo either, and a Windows user (by force, not because I want, lets be clear :) ), but in a Mac or Linux I think I would use try Pharo Launcher, where you can manage you images. In windows I create a new directory and copy the default image there.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:46 PM, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:

In the default Pharo macOS download the image file is embedded inside the
Pharo.app package. Are you suggesting that I use a separate image file that
I place at a location where I can write files?

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EstebanLM

Re: Default working directory

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you cannot do a “save as…” and use it later?

> On 19 Oct 2016, at 18:46, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> In the default Pharo macOS download the image file is embedded inside the
> Pharo.app package. Are you suggesting that I use a separate image file that
> I place at a location where I can write files?
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Vitor Medina Cruz

Re: Default working directory

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Ahh, look, FileSystem has a workingDirectoryPath:, you could change the working directory using that.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Vitor Medina Cruz <[hidden email]> wrote:

I suppose you should do that, I am relatively new to Pharo either, and a Windows user (by force, not because I want, lets be clear :) ), but in a Mac or Linux I think I would use try Pharo Launcher, where you can manage you images. In windows I create a new directory and copy the default image there.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:46 PM, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:
In the default Pharo macOS download the image file is embedded inside the
Pharo.app package. Are you suggesting that I use a separate image file that
I place at a location where I can write files?

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Vitor Medina Cruz

Re: Default working directory

Esteban, yes, I could use save as..., its pretty much the same thing, no?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Vitor Medina Cruz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ahh, look, FileSystem has a workingDirectoryPath:, you could change the working directory using that.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Vitor Medina Cruz <[hidden email]> wrote:
I suppose you should do that, I am relatively new to Pharo either, and a Windows user (by force, not because I want, lets be clear :) ), but in a Mac or Linux I think I would use try Pharo Launcher, where you can manage you images. In windows I create a new directory and copy the default image there.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:46 PM, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:
In the default Pharo macOS download the image file is embedded inside the
Pharo.app package. Are you suggesting that I use a separate image file that
I place at a location where I can write files?

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wvzuilen

Re: Default working directory

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I've tried that. Like this: FileSystem disk workingDirectoryPath: Path / 'Users/myusername/Desktop'.
As expected it changes my working directory, but the test mentioned in my first post still fails. ?!?

Vitor Medina Cruz

Re: Default working directory

I think file writeStream of File does not honor FileSystem configuration. In the end of the message chain you have the primitive call "primOpen: fileName writable: writableFlag".

Try changing your test code to this:

testFileExists
| file |

file := FileSystem workingDirectory / 'asd.txt'.

file writeStream close.
self assert: file exists.
file delete

This should work. I don't know, however, if that is the best practice or not.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:33 PM, wvzuilen <[hidden email]> wrote:

I've tried that. Like this: FileSystem disk workingDirectoryPath: Path /
'Users/myusername/Desktop'.
As expected it changes my working directory, but the test mentioned in my
first post still fails. ?!?

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