As a workaround, you could have the GUI startup a script rather
than xcircuit. The script could prepare a bare-bones
something.ps and then starts xcircuit on it.
- Don
On Sep 22, Svenn Are Bjerkem propounded certain bytes, to wit:
> Subject: [Xcircuit-dev] Behaviour when opening empty ps files
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> this is something that has to do with the way I use xcircuit.
>
> I have defined xcircuit to be on the list of applications that can
> open a .ps file when I use "open with ..." option from the file
> browser in a graphical GUI context. In order to create a new xcircuit
> file without opening an xterm I use the file browser functionality to
> create a new empty file and call it something.ps. Then right clicking
> on that new empty file and select "open with xcircuit" brings up
> xcircuit in proper working directory. So far, xcircuit starts, but
> since there is no prolog in the file, an error message is printed. The
> problem is that the filename is lost so when I want to save the file,
> I have to go back to the navigator to get the filename for the save
> file dialog.
>
> Question is, would it be possible to quietly ignore the fact that a
> prolog is missing if the file is empty and accept the filename into
> the dialog so that saving is just a matter of shift-W of save all?
>
> Another thing is maybe it is possible to reuse an already opened
> xcircuit when a new file is opened and give it a new page?
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Svenn
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