Re: [MACTCL] Problems running wish from a shell

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

Humm,

I was just trying this today, and I can't get it NOT to work, just like
Jack.  I don't do anything special to make the App magic work, just whatever
ProjectBuilder in its infinite wisdom does for me...

But I tried typing the full path, being in the contents directory, linking
the real executable to somewhere else (/tmp/wish in my case) and they all
worked, both when I put a script on the command line and when I didn't.

Very odd.  I will try again tomorrow to put up the latest binary
(SourceForge somehow lost my last attempt...)  Then, Rudiger, maybe you can
give me a test that fails with THIS binary, and I will see if I can
reproduce it.

Jim

> 
> 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.
> --
> - Jack Jansen        <Jac...@or...>
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Jim Ingham                              ji...@ap...
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