freakboy3742
commented
3 years ago Thanks for the detailed bug report.
The good news is that the console output is available; it's just not on the console. All stdout/stderr content is piped to the macOS system logs. So - if you start console.app (search for "console" on your Launchpad), then add a filter using the search box on the top right for the name of your app (e.g., if your app menu is "Hello World", use that as your filter text), you'll see all the stdout/stderr content for your app (plus a few other logs indicating app startup status, etc)
That will at least get you to the point where you can see any errors that are being raised. Hopefully from there we'll be able to narrow down a little further.
spencernewton
sarthaksharma058439
Describe the bug Hello to whoever may be reading this! I've encountered a bug that unfortunately has hindered my progress making a GUI for a script. I seem to run into this issue no matter what GUI toolkit I've tried to use to build a GUI, but using Toga, Briefcase, and Beware has gotten me the closest so far to a running app.
My GUI take Apple Card statements and imports them into the budgeting software Mint. The code can be found here, and under the /feature/GUI branch is everything currently working in dev but not when created.
The app takes some user input, writes it to a few .txt files in the source folders, and then calls/runs another pre-existing script to take the .txt file data and run a program with it. So far I have been able to get it all working when running in dev mode, no issues at all. However, when running it after
briefcase create/buildetc., the app/GUI itself works fine but when I click my button to run the script, it writes the data to the txt files, and then seemingly does not run the script, or tries to and crashes somehow/somewhere that I now cannot see.Since it's packaged at that point, I have no console to see the error or have any way of knowing what is happening, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I assume it's some issue with a module in the import script that is getting called, but I don't understand enough about python to know why it would make a difference running in dev vs being an actual .app program (I'd love to know, clearly!)
In general, I'd like to be able to open a window showing a console output from the other script, like I can see when I run in dev mode, so one question is how I can do that because I have not figured out a way to show in the app what is happening in the background; I'd like to show the user a small text box showing where the process is at, but this would be doubly helpful to show any errors when running as a built app.
I have tried to follow instructions from #478 as that is the closest thing I can find, but it did not resolve the issue.
To Reproduce It's tough to reproduce without having a way to see the error; the only way I know it isn't working is, well, because no transactions get imported to my Mint account. However, if you download the code,
briefcase devitIf all is correct, the console log should give something like this:
This means the script ran, and if the proper info was put in by the user it would have imported the single transaction to Mint. I have no way of seeing if this script is working properly after building it, and it seems it is not running since the app does not work when built.
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Thanks if you took the time to read this. I've been struggling hard to understand why this isn't working and would really love to get it fixed and understand why it's not doing what it should!