Ok,
thanks for the comments, the script is now completely debugged and works like
a charm, except it still doesn't work after installation in a different
directory. It's like it doesn't even get going.
and then when i create the app again in the new directory using the original
.sh script and Platypus, it works like a charm again.
strange.
greetz,
Vincent Neyt
Op 18-jan-06 om 13:31 heeft Sveinbjorn Thordarson het volgende geschreven:
On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Vincent Neyt wrote:
I have been using your wonderful platypus software. I am working on a
cd-rom that has an Apache Tomcat on it. Users have to install it and once
it is up and running people can use my dynamic web application. For mac
users, I have found a way to bundle the whole startup shell stuff in one
nice Platypus app, so that users simply have to click the app to start
everything up.
Now when i create the app, it works like a charm. but then when I compile
my installer, and run that installer and start the app from the directory
it has been installed in, it never works, and i cant get it to.
from your help file i have inserted the code to change the working
directory to the directory where the app is, so that shouldnt be the
problem.
the only thing i can imagine that might be causing this, is that maybe
when I create the app, the directory structure is hard coded into the
executable portion of the app, and doesn't work whenever it is installed
into another directory.
Do you have any idea what the problem could be and how to solve it?
The only path that's hardcoded into Platypus apps is the standard
application bundle directory structure, i.e.
MyApp.app/Contents/
MyApp.app/Contents/Resources
MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS
and so on. It receives the path to the application bundle is received in
the first argument to the script. In order to access the contents of the
application bundle, you need to change your working directory to the first
argument -- this puts you inside MyApp.app. Does your Platypus app output
anything? Take a look at the system logs in Console.app. I'd recommend
that you try making your script output debugging info, e.g. 'echo $CWD',
test everything carefully in your script code.
Cheers,
Sveinbjorn Thordarson
