[AG-DEV] Shared Presentation / Debugging Python Executables on Mac

[Adam Carter]

Hi,

Thanks to those who've offered assistance. Turned out that there was no real
black magic involved, the startag.sh file set all the paths that I needed to
copy.

I got to the bottom of the Shared Presentation problem too: The machine
didn't have the appscript python package installed. This didn't seem to be
included in the install package or mentioned in the prerequisites. It
might've gone unnoticed to those who've installed 3.1beta on a machine that
already had 3.0.x, but I'd done a clean install and this appeared to be
missing.

Thanks,

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf
Of Wenjun Wu
Sent: 07 August 2007 16:10
To: Adam Carter
Cc: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-DEV] Shared Presentation / Debugging Python Executables on
Mac

Hi Adam,
   Did you see any error or exception messages in your log while running 
the shared presentation?
   Thanks,
Wenjun
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to work out why Shared Presentation isn't working on a MacBook
> running AG 3.1beta1. I've been trying to debug this but my "primitive
> Windows techniques" don't seem to work on OS X! In particular, I can see
> from the Venue Client log runs:
>
> /usr/bin/pythonw SharedPresentation.py -v <vurl> -a <aurl> -c <curl>
>
> (where I've abbreviated the URLs)
>
> However, I can't just run this from the command line, as it does not know
> where to find SharedApplication.py. I'm not sure if there's some black
magic
> which means that Mac applications automatically add to their path the
> contents of the application package, or whether I just need to run some
> script or something that will set up the paths.
>
> If anyone can suggest to me the easiest way to emulate running programs
> using the lines from the log file, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Also, if anyone happens to have run up against similar issues with shared
> presentation, then I'd be interested to know if you've made any progress.
> Currently when I start shared presentation I see neither the shared
> presentation controller or the MS PowerPoint window.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> Adam
>
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