Re: [MACTCL] Problems running wish from a shell

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

> 
> Sorry, but I didn"t get the point (maybe because I came from then UNIX side).
> If I start a program in a shell in the terminal app why depends its behavior
> on
> the path I am on ? I linked (hard and sym)
> /Applications/Wish Shell.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell to /usr/bin/wish.
> If I cd to /usr/bin everythings fine. If not (espically if I start scripts
> using
> the #!-meachnism, or by "/some/path/ > wish script.tcl" ) its broken.
> 
> BTW: the tixwish is just a clone of your Wish Shell.ap with 3 extra lines to
> load 
> the tix-Framework. Its the same type of Application as the Wish Shell in the
> Tk-project
> is. However the problem I'm talking about applies to both wish and tixwish.
> And I build the wish right from your PB-project.

Yes, there is something weird in how GUI apps get launched from the command
line.  I noticed, for instance, that if I did:

cd /Volumes/Somewhere/SomeGuiApp.app/Contents/MacOS
gdb ./SomeGuiApp

Then the app would NOT launch (this is ANY GUI app, not just Carbon or Wish
or whatever...)  But if I did:

gdb SomeGuiApp

then it would.  I haven't looked into this further yet, though.  I will ask
around and see if there is a good answer to this problem.

> 
> Maybe I missed your point, but I couldn'T figure out how to get a least wish
> running
> in a shell in the same way I"m used to from Linux.
> 
> Or was your point, that it doesn"t work this way on Mac OS X?
> 

Well, it doesn't seem to, though it gets tantalizingly close sometimes.  I
am not sure if there is something else Wish could do at startup to make this
work, or not.  When I figure something out I will tell you.  For now,
though, I think you need to find some other way to test your Tix port...

Sorry.

Jim
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Jim Ingham                              ji...@ap...
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