GnuCash Launcher

[David T.]

The errors you describe remind me of the problems I see with the fink version of 2.2.8 under my 10.5.6. The solution here was to follow the instruction to issue the following commands at the terminal prompt:

source /sw/bin/init.sh ; /sw/bin/gnucash &

I created an Automator app that does this in a shell script successfully.

David

--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Mark <HerrPoetry at hailmail.net> wrote:

> From: Mark <HerrPoetry at hailmail.net>
> Subject: GnuCash Launcher
> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:44 PM
> I'm looking for a way to launch native Quartz GnuCash
> without using 
> Terminal.
> 
> I have just finished a complete fresh install of Macports,
> followed by a 
> native Quartz, minimal (+without_hbci +without_ofx
> +without_quotes) 
> install of GnuCash on MBP 10.5.6.
> 
> I used to run, and still have installed, GnuCash2 on Fink.
> The Fink 
> installation broke when I upgraded GnuCash2: started
> getting the error 
> message reported here
> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755> --
> 
>     "Two error windows every time gnucash is launched.
> One says: "The
>     configuration data used to specify default values for
> GnuCash cannot
>     be found in the default system locations. Without this
> data GnuCash
>     will still operate properly but it may require some
> extra time to
>     setup. Do you wish to setup the configuration
> data?"
> 
>     "The other says: "An error occurred while
> loading or saving
>     configuration information for gnucash. Some of your
> configuration
>     settings may not work properly."
> 
>     "When I click "Details" on the second
> window, it says: "Failed to
>     contact configuration server..."
> 
> I'm pleased to say my Macports installation of native
> Quartz GnuCash 
> works fine IF I open a Terminal and start it from the
> command line.
> 
> I wrote an embarrassingly simplistic Applescript using
> "do shell script":
>     do shell script "/opt/local/bin/gnucash"
> which starts GnuCash without launching Terminal.app. But
> this method 
> always results in the two-window error quoted above. By
> contrast, the 
> Applescript:
>     tell application "Terminal"
>         do script "/opt/local/bin/gnucash >&
> /dev/null &"
>     end tell
> opens a Terminal window and GnuCash fires up perfectly.
> 
> I've tried incorporating the suggestions in Comment 17 
> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755#comment:17> of
> the above-quoted 
> ticket into my "do shell script," but either it
> doesn't work or it 
> requires some Applescript finesse (I have none).
> 
> Is there any hope of launching native Quartz GnuCash
> without wrapping it 
> in Terminal?
> 
> - Mark (Newbie-ish)
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