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bug #21844: gopen not properly opening applications...

Submitter:  Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
Submitted:  Tue 18 Dec 2007 11:49:31 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Application Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gcasa
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 19 Dec 2007 11:26:56 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Ah yes, I see, The gopen tool does open the application when used with the -a flag ... it was the documentation which was wrong in saying that it didn't.  I've corrected the documentation to describe the actual behavior (after checking to confirm that -a does in fact work as on MacOS).

Richard Frith-Macdonald <CaS>
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Wed 19 Dec 2007 07:43:32 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I just tested this...

open -a Interface\ Builder

opens Interface Builder.app on Mac OS 10.4.11.

G.

Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
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Wed 19 Dec 2007 07:36:46 AM UTC, comment #2: 

open -a <applicationname>

should open the application.   This is in accordance with how it works on OPENSTEP and on Mac OS X and it also used to work when I originally wrote gopen. :)   So, in either case, it should work.

G

Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
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Wed 19 Dec 2007 06:28:35 AM UTC, comment #1: 

The gopen command is a tool for opening documents, not a tool for opening applications.
The command 'gopen -a Gorm' means that the document specified in the third (non-existent) argument shoud be opened using the application in the second argument (Gorm) ... it should not launch Gorm as no document was actually given for it to open.

So I changed this to be a 'change request' rather than a bug, as the current behavior is the expected (and documented) behavior, but the extension to allow gopen to be used to open applications seems a reasonable one.

Richard Frith-Macdonald <CaS>
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Tue 18 Dec 2007 11:49:31 PM UTC, original submission:  

The gopen tool is not properly opening applications.

Example:

1) make_services
2) gopen -a Gorm

RESULT: Gorm is not opened...
EXPECTED: Gorm should open.

Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2007-12-19 CaS Item GroupChange Request Documentation
        StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2007-12-19 CaS Item GroupBug Change Request
    2007-12-18 gcasa StatusIn Progress Confirmed
    2007-12-18 gcasa StatusNone In Progress

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