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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Christoph, > > Indeed that would be confusing. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Oct 3, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Christoph R < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: > >> > >> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> On Oct 1, 2018, at 4:02 AM, Robert Kesterson <[email protected]> > 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>>> ----- > >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Gruß, > >>> Christoph > >>> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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