GnuCash Launcher

[Mark Vecchio]

Genius! That worked. Thank you!

- Mark


David T. wrote:
> 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:
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> source /sw/bin/init.sh ; /sw/bin/gnucash &
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> I created an Automator app that does this in a shell script successfully.
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> David
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> --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Mark <HerrPoetry at hailmail.net> wrote:
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>> 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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