[GRASS-user] new drag-n-drop mapset for Mac .app build

[Mars Sjoden]

hmm, this is pretty interesting.

Now I am wondering... It maybe conceivable to create a folder action  
script so that simply "Opening" the Mapset folder will launch your  
GRASS.app with it's path.

So did you use an applescript or some such?  Is this new  
functionality built into a newer build of GRASS.app on your site?

Do you mind sharing the source of this trick, just out of curiousity,

Thank you!

Mars


On 13-Jul-07, at 9:21 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> It's now possible to drag a mapset folder to the Mac GRASS.app  
> binary to have it open that mapset immediately on startup.  This is  
> exactly the same as the commandline startup (which doesn't directly  
> work with GRASS.app):
>
>   grass63 /path/to/db/location/mapset
>
> AND, the equivalent commandline startup for GRASS.app (so you don't  
> need to type the full path to the grass.sh script or mess with your  
> PATH) is:
>
>   open -a "GRASS-6.3.app" /path/to/db/location/mapset
>
> Note that this will open a new Terminal window, instead of running  
> it in the current window.
>
>
> In working this out, I also seem to have fixed the odd PPC problem  
> where running grass-xterm-wrapper once made it impossible to run  
> GRASS.app again until Terminal is quit (which meant GRASS also must  
> be quit).
>
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