Hi, This happend to me as well.
I solved it by putting a shortcut in the "/WINDOWS" directory. This is quite the same as how the other commands (notepad, regedit, etc.) work. Hope this helps.. btw I already wrote a mail about this earlier. ----- Original Message ----- From: * William To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Run Shoes from command line? Hi ... I have a related question, it might be a feature suggestion for the police force ... Shoes doesn't quite work the way I expected with the Windows Start command. For the non-Windows people, I'll explain .. Start is like: $ shoes myShinyApp.rb & But actually, under windows when one kick-s a GUI application is _should_ fire off to the windows message-loop as a window program. For example; look at the difference between Notepad and Shoes on the command line. C:\ > shoes myShinyApp ......... Waits until the window is closed. C:\ > Notepad C:\ > .................... Notepad is launched as its own stack or like a fork() process And the next command line prompt appears for me to do more. I'm pretty sure that's the normal behaviour on Apple when I type something like finder to the command doesn't it go off and leave me with the next command prompt too? With Start, like C:\ > start shoes myShinyApp ......... Opens a new consol window and that WAITS until the Shoes app window is closed. So my "guess" here is that Shoes is built as a console application (say like xcopy or ipconfig) and not a windows application (like notepad). On the "least surprise" principle, I'd expect and my (Mac user) wife would expect a GUI app to fire-off a gui window and issue a new prompt. On linux it is like (say an x-program). $ xstart Shoes myShinyApp (or whatever).... Do folk think that makes sense, or was it just me ? aloha, \_w_/ ___________________________________ º http://mbimarketing.wordpress.com º http://adroit-process.blogspot.com 2009/7/31 Roy Wright <[email protected]> Of course there is the old standby: #!/usr/bin/env shoes Then, I can say: $ shoes foo.rb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.38/2274 - Release Date: 07/31/09 05:58:00
