RunProgram() Again!

[collectordave]

Searched forum tried all the tips but still cannot get this to work.

I have tried both of these

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   Debug RunProgram(GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Programs)  + "WSCHelp.app/Contents/MacOS/WSCHelp","","")
   Debug  RunProgram(GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Programs)  + "WSCHelp","","")

The second with and without the .app.

The program launches perfectly within launcher and also if I use finder just not with PB???

CD

PS Moved app to same folder as prog and ran

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Debug RunProgram("Open","WSCHelp.app","")

and it works but if I specify the path it doesn't?

PPS

Added Chr(34) to start and end of the path including app name and it works when in the application folder however

Specifying this to run the copy in the applications folder:

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 Folder.s = GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Programs)  + "WSCHelp.app"
  Debug  RunProgram("Open",Chr(34) + Folder + Chr(34),"")

Does Not Work???

[Wolfram]

Are you sure your program is in "/Users/YOURNAME/Applications" ?
Normally the programs are in "/Applications".

[collectordave]

Now that is a bit weird.

Using finder it appears to be in /Applications and in username/Applications

A little further on it appears that the Applications in UserName could be a shortcut.

If so looking for in a shortcut is no good.

However GetUserDirectory for programmes returns this directory(short cut) as the path.

Removing the Username bit gets it to work.

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RunProgram("Open",Chr(34) + "/Applications/WSCHelp.app" + Chr(34),"")

Works.

Could ask that this is pointed out in the PB docs as get userdirectory in this case does not return a directory.

Thanks for the pointer.

CD

[collectordave]

Just another puzzle with run program

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   FileToEdit = "Main Form.html"
  ;RunProgram("/Applications/KompoZer.app ","--args " + Chr(34)  + FileToEdit + Chr(34),"") 
   RunProgram("/Applications/KompoZer.app ", Chr(34)  + FileToEdit + Chr(34),"") 

Trying to launch Kompozer with arguments. Tried both neither work.

Without arguments runs perfectly.

If I use terminal with this line

open /Applications/KompoZer.app --args "Main Form.html"

Kompozer runs and opens the file to edit.

I am missing something again I think.


PS

Just Tried

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RunProgram("Open", "/Applications/KompoZer.app --args " + Chr(34) + FileToEdit + Chr(34),"")

And it worked! Just looked at Open and passed the whole line to run composer as an argument to open.

Slowly getting the hang of it.

Regards

CD

[deseven]

Just to explain why it works that way.

App bundles (*.app) are just an abstract layer built on top of a simple unix way to execute binaries. They are basically just folders and nothing more.
Since PB's RunProgram doesn't know anything about that abstract layer, you have to use open -a OR run the executable directly.

For example:

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RunProgram("/Applications/KompoZer.app/Contents/MacOS/KompoZer", ~"\""  + FileToEdit + ~"\"","") ; need to check if your main executable is called like that
RunProgram("open", ~"-a /Applications/KompoZer.app \"" + FileToEdit + ~"\"","") ; passes your argument through cocoa api
RunProgram("open", ~"-a /Applications/KompoZer.app --args \"" + FileToEdit + ~"\"","") ; passes your argument in a typical unix way (equivalent of the first method)

You can also read man open for advanced usage. For example you can omit full path to app at all (open -a KompoZer.app) or, even better, run app by its bundle indentifier (open -b com.example.kompozer)