Hi all,
I'm trying to launch a windows application from terminal. I have a symlink 'dymola' to 'dymola.app'. Clicking these links in finder will open Dymola. The following command in terminal also works:
> open /path/dymola
Dymola can also be launched with the argument /nowindow, which I can get to work as follows:
> open /path/dymola --args /nowindow
Now I want to open a file x.mos which I can do as follows:
> open /pathtofile/x.mos -a /path/dymola
The problem is that when I now try to pass the /nowindow argument it gets passed to x.mos instead of dymola, which is causing me problems.
My question: how can I pass this argument.. I already tried some things:
1) making a new link in windows containing: dymola.exe /nowindow -> I created a parallels .app file and symlink dymola-nowindow
> open /path/dymola-nowindow
-> LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /path/dymola-nowindow.
2) tried looking into dymola.app to see whether I can manually insert the argument there -> no luck
Is there a way to pass arguments to winapphelper?
3) Tried making a dummy exectuable 'nowindowhelper' containing: "open /path/dymola --args /nowindow"
> open ~/pathtofile/x.mos -a /path/nowindowhelper
-> LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /path/nowindowhelper with error -10811 for the file /pathtofile/x.mos.
The cleanest way seems to be option 2 where I could manually add the argument in one of Parallels links. Similar things have been suggested here:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?6918-Give-us-a-hint-Parallels-Team
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?19445-Launching-URL-in-Windows-from-OSX-from-commandline
I hope someone can help me out here!
thanks!
I'm trying to launch a windows application from terminal. I have a symlink 'dymola' to 'dymola.app'. Clicking these links in finder will open Dymola. The following command in terminal also works:
> open /path/dymola
Dymola can also be launched with the argument /nowindow, which I can get to work as follows:
> open /path/dymola --args /nowindow
Now I want to open a file x.mos which I can do as follows:
> open /pathtofile/x.mos -a /path/dymola
The problem is that when I now try to pass the /nowindow argument it gets passed to x.mos instead of dymola, which is causing me problems.
My question: how can I pass this argument.. I already tried some things:
1) making a new link in windows containing: dymola.exe /nowindow -> I created a parallels .app file and symlink dymola-nowindow
> open /path/dymola-nowindow
-> LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /path/dymola-nowindow.
2) tried looking into dymola.app to see whether I can manually insert the argument there -> no luck
Is there a way to pass arguments to winapphelper?
3) Tried making a dummy exectuable 'nowindowhelper' containing: "open /path/dymola --args /nowindow"
> open ~/pathtofile/x.mos -a /path/nowindowhelper
-> LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /path/nowindowhelper with error -10811 for the file /pathtofile/x.mos.
The cleanest way seems to be option 2 where I could manually add the argument in one of Parallels links. Similar things have been suggested here:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?6918-Give-us-a-hint-Parallels-Team
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?19445-Launching-URL-in-Windows-from-OSX-from-commandline
I hope someone can help me out here!
thanks!