Hmm hmm good point,
OnMyCommand, yes great little contextual menu framework, ...
Hmmm Thank goodness there are people like you William to help with
Mac OSX development, I get about one hour into designing front ends
to GRASS and get pulled back by work obligations and family matters.
In any case you have my interest perked, I may try some applescript
automatons to brush up and interest sake.
cheers
Mars
On 13-Jul-07, at 3:05 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote:
hmm, this is pretty interesting.
Now I am wondering... It maybe conceivable to create a folder
action script so that simply "Opening" the Mapset folder will
launch your GRASS.app with it's path.
Certainly possible. I wouldn't want to do that myself, since I
like to poke around in the mapset folder and wouldn't want it to
open GRASS instead (it would probably already be open in GRASS).
Another possibility would be to use something like OnMyCommand to
make a contextual menu item that will try to open a selected folder
in GRASS.
So did you use an applescript or some such? Is this new
functionality built into a newer build of GRASS.app on your site?
Do you mind sharing the source of this trick, just out of curiousity,
It's in the source, so when GRASS.app is built the functionality is
there. I haven't updated my binaries yet. I'll do that later this
weekend.
It's a part of the AppleScript startup wrapper
(GRASS.applescript). Basic Applescript handlers, though figuring
out the order that the event handlers are called when launching an
application had me stuck for a while (so that it had a chance to
process the drag-n-drop before attempting to start GRASS without it
and quitting).
Thank you!
Mars
On 13-Jul-07, at 9:21 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
It's now possible to drag a mapset folder to the Mac GRASS.app
binary to have it open that mapset immediately on startup. This
is exactly the same as the commandline startup (which doesn't
directly work with GRASS.app):
grass63 /path/to/db/location/mapset
AND, the equivalent commandline startup for GRASS.app (so you
don't need to type the full path to the grass.sh script or mess
with your PATH) is:
open -a "GRASS-6.3.app" /path/to/db/location/mapset
Note that this will open a new Terminal window, instead of
running it in the current window.
In working this out, I also seem to have fixed the odd PPC
problem where running grass-xterm-wrapper once made it impossible
to run GRASS.app again until Terminal is quit (which meant GRASS
also must be quit).
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