[GNC] Launching on Mac (was Repeatable Mac crash)

[Tommy Trussell]

If it works to call gnucash with the files on the command line, can you put
the automator script (or a bash script or applescript) into the GnuCash
bundle, set the bundle's plist to call the script, and pass the command
line arguments to the gnucash binary using the script?

I don't have a modern Mac set up anymore -- I think my newest runs snow
leopard -- so I can't try this myself with the latest binary.


On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:01 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Christoph,
>
> Indeed that would be confusing.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Oct 3, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Christoph R <
> subscriptions+listen at rohland.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I realized that it has a flaw in general use: The automator script and
> Gnucash are treated as two different programs by MacOS and show up in the
> dock independently. So it would be pretty confusing for a normal user.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> >> Am 01.10.2018 um 22:34 schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:
> >>
> >> Christoph,
> >>
> >> I’d never even considered putting Automator into the launch process.
> Instead I tried to catch the OpenFile notification from LaunchServices. The
> problem with that is that we don’t get the notification until the event
> loop is started and GnuCash loads the file before starting the event loop.
> I didn’t figure that out until November or December and by that point I
> wasn’t willing to rearrange the start up so close to the release,
> especially since we were already struggling with the Gtk3 changes. Getting
> Automator to catch the notification and adjust the command line is a clever
> hack.
> >>
> >> How would it work for installation? IIUC we’d still need the
> Gnucash.app bundle alongside the Automator script and I suppose the
> Automator script would also need to know the installed path of the bundle
> in order to start it from its shell.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Oct 1, 2018, at 8:41 AM, Christoph R <
> subscriptions+listen at rohland.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi John,
> >>>
> >>> reading this I instantly created an Automator Shell Script which opens
> with “—nofile” when double clicked and with the file when I drop a file on
> it. After changing the file information too I can now double click on a
> .gnucash file to open it.
> >>>
> >>> What’s the reason that we cannot implement this - or something similar
> - in the standard package?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Christoph
> >>>
> >>>> Am 01.10.2018 um 16:17 schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Oct 1, 2018, at 4:02 AM, Robert Kesterson <robertk at robertk.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 30 Sep 2018, at 9:06, John Ralls wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> … >
> >>>>>> Since you’re running two instances of GnuCash it’s likely that the
> trace file will be garbled, so if you could use the following from the
> command line instead:
> >>>>>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> --logto=~/gnucash.trace
> >>>>>> That will create a separate trace file in your user directory that
> you can also attach to the bug report. You could even add the file path for
> the file you really want to open to the end of that and save yourself the
> “can’t get the lock” drill.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It appears that this works around the issue.  I did as you suggested
> and launched with the binary rather than the app package, and I gave it the
> alternate log location and specified the path to open on the command line.
> Since this is a pretty long command line that I don’t want to type often, I
> saved it as an executable shell script, one for each set of books.  Now
> when I run them both, they both run.  No crash. Should I still run them the
> old way and file a bug?  The workaround seems reliable, and I’m happy…
> >>>>
> >>>> I don’t know why you’d want to run the way that causes a crash, but
> you should file a bug.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> John Ralls
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>> Gruß,
> >>> Christoph
> >>>
> >>
> >
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