f.launch does not work under Catalina

Michel_Bujardet · July 29, 2019, 9:55am

One thing is for sure, now they won’t be able to blame it on Jony Ives

Emile_Schwarz · July 29, 2019, 10:36am

Always blame the French

Tim_Jones · July 29, 2019, 3:24pm

I have see this where the launch fails and then executing the same code again works. 19r1.1 and 10.15b4.

As for mottos, don’t forget -

“Change for the sake of change.”

and

“Apps are not the OS, but touting actual OS changes is boring.”

Richard_Duke · July 31, 2019, 9:39pm

strange, the launch work on catalina using 2019r1.1

Michel_Bujardet · July 31, 2019, 11:16pm

Depends the nature of what you launch. A document does. Not an app. But it should not be an issue in R2.

Richard_Duke · August 1, 2019, 12:16am

i guess i was opening doc,xls, csv, pdf and images…

Michel_Bujardet · August 1, 2019, 9:31am

Right. That is not broken in 2019R1.1 compiled apps under Catalina.

Michel_Bujardet · October 17, 2019, 3:41am

To summarize, I was never able to folderitem.launch applications in Catalina, except with executables compiled with 2019R2.

Mario_van_Ginneken · January 16, 2020, 2:18pm

I have this with my application that has not changed in over a year (this code at least). Now I have it running in Xojo 2019R3 and all of a sudden it isn’t launching my PDF’s anymore?!

Mario_van_Ginneken · January 16, 2020, 2:31pm

Yup, loaded the code in R2 and it’s working again… So this is surely changed:

R2: folderitem.launch is working normally

R3: folderitem.launch is working for only half of my files, manual is stating that .launch is now deprecated and that I should use folderitem.open, but that is resulting in a 10810 error in the OS and crashing my app.

Christian_Mézes · January 16, 2020, 2:35pm

Hello,
there seems to be a problem with folderitem.launch and folderitem.open with the newest Xojo versions when you are trying to launch a file on a volume that uses the MS-DOS (FAT16 oder FAT32) format. Also when you copy a file from an MS-DOS (FAT16 oder FAT32) fromatted file system (for example an USB-thumb drive or SD-Card) to a macOS file system folderitem.launch and folderitem.open do not work. I made a feeback case (<https://xojo.com/issue/58856>), you can only see it when you are a beta tester.
At the moment you can ShowURL(FolderItem.URLPath) - that still works.

Mario_van_Ginneken · January 16, 2020, 3:55pm

My files are on a Mac server with older OS-X server software and an afp file system. Some files launch/open oke, some do not launch or let my app crash when I use the open command.

I went (temporarily) back to R2 and everything works fine.