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

[Mars Sjoden]

Hmm hmm good point,
OnMyCommand, yes great little contextual menu framework, ...

Hmmm Thank goodness there are people like you William to help with  
Mac OSX development, I get about one hour into designing front ends  
to GRASS and get pulled back by work obligations and family matters.

In any case you have my interest perked, I may try some applescript  
automatons to brush up and interest sake.

cheers

Mars


On 13-Jul-07, at 3:05 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Certainly possible.  I wouldn't want to do that myself, since I  
> like to poke around in the mapset folder and wouldn't want it to  
> open GRASS instead (it would probably already be open in GRASS).
>
> Another possibility would be to use something like OnMyCommand to  
> make a contextual menu item that will try to open a selected folder  
> in GRASS.
>
>> 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,
>>
> It's in the source, so when GRASS.app is built the functionality is  
> there.  I haven't updated my binaries yet.  I'll do that later this  
> weekend.
>
> It's a part of the AppleScript startup wrapper  
> (GRASS.applescript).  Basic Applescript handlers, though figuring  
> out the order that the event handlers are called when launching an  
> application had me stuck for a while (so that it had a chance to  
> process the drag-n-drop before attempting to start GRASS without it  
> and quitting).
>
>> 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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