From: Mark <[email protected]>
Subject: GnuCash Launcher
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:44 PM
I'm looking for a way to launch native Quartz GnuCash
without using
Terminal.
I have just finished a complete fresh install of Macports,
followed by a
native Quartz, minimal (+without_hbci +without_ofx
+without_quotes)
install of GnuCash on MBP 10.5.6.
I used to run, and still have installed, GnuCash2 on Fink.
The Fink
installation broke when I upgraded GnuCash2: started
getting the error
message reported here
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755> --
"Two error windows every time gnucash is launched.
One says: "The
configuration data used to specify default values for
GnuCash cannot
be found in the default system locations. Without this
data GnuCash
will still operate properly but it may require some
extra time to
setup. Do you wish to setup the configuration
data?"
"The other says: "An error occurred while
loading or saving
configuration information for gnucash. Some of your
configuration
settings may not work properly."
"When I click "Details" on the second
window, it says: "Failed to
contact configuration server..."
I'm pleased to say my Macports installation of native
Quartz GnuCash
works fine IF I open a Terminal and start it from the
command line.
I wrote an embarrassingly simplistic Applescript using
"do shell script":
do shell script "/opt/local/bin/gnucash"
which starts GnuCash without launching Terminal.app. But
this method
always results in the two-window error quoted above. By
contrast, the
Applescript:
tell application "Terminal"
do script "/opt/local/bin/gnucash >&
/dev/null &"
end tell
opens a Terminal window and GnuCash fires up perfectly.
I've tried incorporating the suggestions in Comment 17
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755#comment:17> of
the above-quoted
ticket into my "do shell script," but either it
doesn't work or it
requires some Applescript finesse (I have none).
Is there any hope of launching native Quartz GnuCash
without wrapping it
in Terminal?
- Mark (Newbie-ish)
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