Reinteract wont start

[Nick]

Hi,

after using Reintaract for a few months, I stumbled on a big problem.

Once in a while I'll write some bad code in one of the worksheets.
Reinteract won't finish execution of the script (arrows in tab
header). So I closed whole program and when I try to open it won't
start.
On Win32 just a process Reinteract shows up for a short time in Task
Manager - then disapears.
On Mac I get one bounce of the icon .

I got it a few times on Windows - so I went to the latest script -
deleted the file and Reinteract started just fine.

However on my Mac i FORGOT what I've lately been doing so I can't find
the correct rws file.....

Is there a way to fresh start Reinteract - without opening any
Notebooks and Worksheets ?

Thanks in despare.
Nick

[Robert Schroll]

Nick wrote:
> Is there a way to fresh start Reinteract - without opening any
> Notebooks and Worksheets ?

When starting Reinteract from the command line, you can pass the
notebook to open as an argument. Since the notebook is just a
directory, all you need is the path to the directory, not to a specific
worksheet. You could use this to open a notebook you know to be good.
Alternatively, you could pass the path to an empty directory, which
Reinteract will treat as an empty notebook. I don't know if it's
possible to start Reinteract with the equivalent of "New Notebook", though.

N.B. This is based on my experience with Reinteract on Linux. I assume
it would work on Windows and Macs, but it may not.

Hope this helps,
Robert

[Nick]

Worked great!
Thanks a lot.

Nick

[Owen Taylor]

Robert's advice here is very good. I just wanted to add that if you
find any code that causes the Reinteract program to crash, I'd really
like to know about it. (Mail me privately, mail the group, file a
ticket on reinteract.org, any of those.)

I've also filed a ticket to make Reinteract detect crashes on startup
and do something smart.

http://www.reinteract.org/trac/ticket/90

- Owen