I'd guess, from your description, that you're using agpm.py manually to install the app packages. What's happening is that the shared application database is getting the 'wrong' python interpreter - if you do 'which python' on a mac, you get (after resolving soft links) /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/python, which, while it can start a wxPython app, has no access to the UI, so the GUI windows will never get focus. If you do 'which pythonw' you get (after resolving soft links) a script, which executes a different interpreter, namely, /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python Only the second one (the one you get with 'pythonw') is able to actually run python apps with a GUI correctly. The easy solution here is to always run agpm.py with pythonw instead of python (except on Linux, where there is no such beast). Hope that helps ;-)
Justin Binns Christoph Willing wrote: > I'm trying to move some shared apps onto a Powerbook G4 (for AG retreat). > > These apps work well under Linux and mostly work on the G4 too. > However those that employ a gui are a bit strange, in that they don't > seem to take focus properly.This means they can't be resized or > dragged around the screen with the mouse. Popup menus seem to work on > them after a few false starts. If the gui has a menubar, it doesn't > appear. MessageDialogs from the gui never take focus either so they > never disappear because clicking the OK (Cancel etc) button never works. > > When these apps are started manually, they're fine and behave exactly > as expected. Its just when they're started by joining a shared app > instance via the VenueClient's "Application Sessions" node that there > is a problem. Its as if the VenueClient is holding onto focus, not > allowing its "child" gui's to take it. > > > Has anyone work this out yet? > > chris > > > Christoph Willing Ph: +61 7 3365 8350 > QPSF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland >
