In Shoes, whye does ask_open_file run a shoes app?

Ruby
1

If I have a bit of code inside Shoes.app block, like this

keypress do |k|
case k

…

when :alt_o
@contents = File.read(ask_open_file)
end
end

it runs the file (if it is a shoes app). Otherwise, it seems to do
nothing and returns nil.

If you run it outside of the Shoes.app block, pas in the manual
example] it works ok.

Does Shoes.app set the context for ask_open_file to be able to run new
apps? How can I change this?

Thanks,
Ed

Ed Howland

http://twitter.com/ed_howland

2

Hey Ed-

This is… very strange. And certainly a bug. What platform are you
on, and are you using Policeman or Rasins? I couldn’t recreate this on
OSX Policeman. Using these two scripts: 556579’s gists · GitHub
, when I run test1, and open test2, the alert returns the text of
test2.