[platypus-dev] Re: Accepting dropped files and writing new files - Has anything changed since October?

  • From: Bruce Johnson <johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: platypus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:50:19 -0700

On Dec 12, 2012, at 1:03 PM, "Lenny P. Robert" <lenny.p.robert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am stumped, I have a Perl script that accepts files as input, reads them 
> and writes a new file (in the same folder as the original file). Used 
> Platypus to create an application that accepts dropped files. 
> 
> Last updated the Perl script six weeks ago (October), 'updated' my 
> application back then. The Perl script, run from the command line, and the 
> application created in October still work fine.
> 
> Now, using the very same Perl script Platypus creates an application but the 
> application does, so it seems, nothing apart from launching when I drop a 
> file on the new application.
> 
> Is there any special setting beyond the checkbox 'Accepts dropped items'? Or 
> why would what worked six weeks ago, now have stopped working? Any updates to 
> Perl, the OS, or Platypus since then (I am not 100% sure, my update to 
> Mountain Lion might have been after when Platypus last successfully created 
> the application).

Watch your system log when you run this it'll probably give you clues to what's 
happening. 


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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