Re: Gitk doesn't work on macOS Mojave

[Evgeny Cherpak <cherpake@me.com>]

It seems this code placed at the end of the file, after getcommits() does the trick:

if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} { 
	set openscript [format { 
		open -a \"$(ps -p %d -o comm=)\"
	} [pid] ]
    exec osascript -e [format {
		do shell script "%s"
    } "$openscript” ]
}


> On 19 Jul 2018, at 22:12, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:48 PM Evgeny Cherpak <cherpake@me.com> wrote:
>> You have probably heard this by now already, but gitk doesn’t work on macOS 10.14 - because it uses Apple Events,
>> And apps on 10.14 require user to give them permissions to control other apps with Apple Events.
> 
> This hasn't been reported, so thanks for bringing it up.
> 
>> Here is what I get when I try running it on my machine with beta 4 installed:
>> 
>> Error in startup script: 58:102: execution error: Not authorized to send Apple events to System Events. (-1743)
>>    while executing
>> "exec osascript -e [format {
>>        tell application "System Events"
>>            set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
>>        end te..."
> 
> Fortunately, this feature is merely a convenience, not otherwise
> critical to gitk functioning. It would be ideal if someone running
> Mojave could devise up a patch to work around the problem (either by
> skipping this code on Mojave or discovering a different way to bring
> the application to the foreground). An alternative would be to revert
> 76bf6ff93e (gitk: On OSX, bring the gitk window to front, 2013-04-24),
> which introduced this code.
> 
> (Note, however, that the gitk project is dormant, so it's not clear if
> such a patch will be picked up.)