Re: [ROOT] Setting a too long prompt.

From: Maarten Ballintijn (maartenb@mit.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 23:42:07 MEST 

Hi Brett,

Why not use:

	...->SetPrompt( gSystem->BaseName(argv[0]) );

That should give you what you want in a system independent way?

	Regards,

		Maarten.


On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:36, Brett Viren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A very tiny, but anoying problem: We call TRint::SetPrompt() with
> argv[0] which contains the entire path leading up to the location
> where the executable is installed.  When it gets installed to a path
> which is very long I get:
> 
> Error in <TRint::SetPrompt>: newPrompt too long (> 55 characters)
> 
> and the prompt stays "root [XX] ".
> 
> 
> It would be easy enough to fix TRint::SetPrompt() by inserting
> something like the following at the very beginning:
> 
> 	const char* chptr = newPrompt + strlen(newPrompt);
> 	while (chptr > newPrompt && *chptr != '/') --chptr;
> 	newPrompt = chptr;
> 
> 
> Of course, we can do similarly just before calling SetPrompt(), but I
> guess we are not the only ones this effects.
> 
> -Brett.

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