three different business accounts

[John Ralls]

On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:34 PM, David Carlson wrote:

> On 4/28/2012 3:31 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> 
>>> a)
>>> 
>>>>> That won't work as intended with GnuCash on OS X 
>>>> It's not really a bug, and it's certainly not in OSX. Gnucash simply doesn't handle the "file open" apple event from Finder.
>>>> 
>>>> Gnucash will open an arbitrary file if it's passed on the command line.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Because I'm running a fairly old version of gnucash and that under XP I can't be sure of what happens with newer versions under OSX *BUT* I suspect this is simply a matter of how you are opening what. Do the newer version not allow you to start gnucash initially not opening ANY file? In other words, you can't just open the app letting you see a menu of things you might want it to do? And then if that choice is "open books" (as opposed to open a budget, etc.) let you select what books file from a menu?
>> Gnucash does indeed have that option as well (pass --nofile) but as with opening some file other than the last one opened, only from the command line.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
> Is that because OSX cannot open files from the command line, or is it
> because GnuCash doesn't work that way in OSX?  Maybe I will not buy an
> Apple.

Neither. Gnucash will start up just fine from the command line on OSX, and it behaves exactly like it does on Linux.

Regards,
John Ralls