> At 10:53 -0700 2002.10.08, Richard Cook wrote: > >when MacPerl 5.6.1r1 is launched by clicking a perl document, the little > >wheel appears sometimes, spinning under the camel cursor, even though > >"edit" is checked in the prefs for "scripts opened from the finder". The > >opened script is not being executed: the cursor is just spinning when it > >shouldn't be, and continues until com-period is typed. but sometimes > >this spinning doesn't happen. Is this a known issue? -Richard > > What OS (e.g., Mac OS, Mac OS X) and version (e.g., 8.1, 9.1, 9.2.2, etc.) > are you running?
Mac OS 9.0 on one machine, and 9.2 on another. It happens on both. > > What menus show in MacPerl (e.g., File, Edit, etc.) during this? > Um, I'm not sure what you mean. All the menus are where they should be .... the cursor spins as if a script is being executed, but all the menus appear as they should if the app is just idle (as when a script has been opened for editing, but unmodified). > > At 15:08 -0700 2002.10.10, Richard Cook wrote: > >A related problem seems to be that sometimes when a script is > >double-clicked in the finder, MacPerl will launch, but the file doesn't open. > > How is this different from the above problem? > It's completely different. In one case double-clicking a macperl document launches macperl, opens the file and the cursor spins; in the other case double-clicking the same document lauches macperl, but no document opens, and no cursor spins. -Richard
