Re: [MACTCL] Problems running wish from a shell

[Jack J. <ja...@or...>]

On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 07:03 , Jim Ingham wrote:
> I haven't figured out a good workaround for this  yet, but you have to 
> have
> the app in an App bundle with the appropriate support files for it to 
> launch
> properly.  There is some other way to invoke the proper voodoo - I have 
> seen
> an app or two that do, but I don't know what it is.

For some reason (i.e. I haven't the foggiest idea what I did:-) running 
from the command line works fine for Python.app. But: it could well be 
that I've always tried it by giving a full path to run it, so maybe 
that's a difference?

My feeling is that the whole "magic" for turning a unix process into a 
MacOSX "application process" is contained within the process itself, 
i.e. it looks around in the filesystem in the area surrounding the 
executable and if it looks sufficiently .app-bundle-like it will do the 
right thing. So you may want to look at what's in your bundle and 
compare it to what is in the Python.app bundle, or in bundles of other 
programs that do the right thing when run from the command line.

Another difference (but your no doubt aware of this) is of course that 
you won't get the initial AppleEvent and that you don't get the funny 
argv argument that the finder (or someone else) gives you when 
double-clicking the .app.
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