Your app (with or without icon) is the folder that ends in ".app". You should be able to drag-and-drop that elsewhere and double-click, although not if you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
-k. On 2014-05-12 at 14:37, Biddiscombe, John A. <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken, Thanks. I didn’t see your reply until now as it went into my spam > folder but as I replied to the other Ken using the open method fixes the > problem. I don’t have an app icon (where’s that?) - when I launch paraview > I need to set a bunch of ld_library paths and plugin paths (for different > builds and options) so a script which sets these up and then calls the > open /bla/bla is ideal. > > JB > > On 12/05/14 14:29, "Ken Mankoff" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>If I launch the Kitware build of paraview the way you describe, I have >>similar behavior, but a simple click on Paraview or CMD+TAB brings it to >>the foreground. But if I launch it with "open /path/to/paraview.app" (or >>a double-click on the App icon) then it opens in the foreground. Does >>that help? >> >> -k. >> >>On 2014-05-12 at 06:26, Biddiscombe, John A. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I have not used paraview much on a macbook until today - I'm having >>>problems because after I have finished compiling paraview or some custom >>>plugins, I run it by executing >>> /Users/biddisco/build/pv4/bin/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS/paraview & >>> from a terminal window, but although paraview appears and runs fine, >>>the menu bar frequently does not appear and the terminal window menu >>>stays at the top of the screen >>> This makes paraview essentially useless as I can't create any sources, >>>add filters etc etc. >>> >>> Sometimes I can make it appear by minimizing the terminal and moving >>>focus back to paraview (But that is quite annoying) >>> >>> Is there some key magic step that is required for applications to make >>>the menus appear on macs (or just an easier way)? >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> JB >> _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
