Create Laucher for program from macports

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Create Laucher for program from macports

I am running mountain lion (10.8.4) on a MacPro. I have downloaded the geany editor using macports ("sudo port install geany"). I can start the program from a terminal using the command "geany" or "geany file.py" if I wish to edit the file "file.py" (I program in python). I am completely new to the Mac world (having come from Ubuntu Linux). Note that geany uses XQuartz. I wish to create a laucher app for geany and to make geany the default editor for .py files. From what I have read applescript is the way to do this, but nothing I do works. Any suggestions or links or references would be greatly appreciated. I can write bash and python scripts to launch geany but cannot get beyound that point. I keep coming across the comment that the applescript rules have changed for mountain lion.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 23, 2013 6:11 AM

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Answer 1

twtwtw

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Aug 23, 2013 1:31 PM in response to brombo

I geany is normal you ought to be able to make it the default editor by finding a .py, selecting Get Info (⌘I) in the Finder, and then setting Open with: to Geany and clicking the Change All... button. If that doesn't work I'll need to look into it further.

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BobHarris

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Aug 23, 2013 2:08 PM in response to brombo

Use Applications -> Automator -> Application -> Run Shell Script

Change the "Pass input" to "as arguments"

Change the

echo $f

to the full path to your geany executable. Leave the $f

/the/full/path/to/geany $f

Save the Automator app. Give it a name you like.

Now you can use twtwtw' trick to assocate .py files with the Automator app you have just created.

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