Can a flet application only work "sometimes"?

[mmartinortiz]

Question

I am developing a very small application using flet. My systems looks like:

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Python 3.10.6
• Flet 0.4.2
• VS Code 1.77.0

On Saturday I was writing some code. It worked, I committed it and pushed it. You can find it here. Switched off the computer. On Monday, I started working again but the following situation happened:

• When using the integrated terminal of VS Code, the FilePicker dialog never showed up
• When using the desktop terminal, the FilePicker showed up but the selected folder was never returned

On Tuesday (today) I tried again without changes in my code and then:

• When using the integrated terminal of VS Code, the FilePicker dialog never showed up
• When using the desktop terminal, everything works perfectly, as it happened on Saturday

This is a situation that I do not understand. When running the application with flet -vv nothings is shown in the terminal. Moreover, I discovered another difference regarding Saturday:

• On VS Code, the initial_directory property is ignored
• On the terminal, the initial_directory property works as expected

There have been other updates on the system, but those are normal updates from Ubuntu.

What would be the reasons for this situation to happen?

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

[FeodorFitsner]

Sorry, you are running on Ubuntu. I've deleted my comment.

[mmartinortiz]

Today I got back to work on my project. No code has been changed since last time, that is when I open this discussion. From VS Code, the FilePicker dialog does not open. From the normal terminal the FilePicker dialog opens, I can select a folder, but the folder path is not returned to the main program.

The flag -vv does not show any output.

Can you reproduce this situation? or is it just something that happens to me?