Fix issue #92

chrisjbillington · chrisjbillington · commit 80f272ee88b1 · 2020-06-24T20:45:17.000-04:00
Launch runviewer using the runviewer-gui launcher, for consistency with how it would be launched by a human, and to ensure it has a hidden console window of its own instead of no console window (the cause of issue #92).
diff --git a/runmanager/__main__.py b/runmanager/__main__.py
@@ -3483,7 +3483,8 @@ def send_to_runviewer(self, run_file):
             # Runviewer not running, start it:
             if os.name == 'nt':
                 creationflags = 0x00000008  # DETACHED_PROCESS from the win32 API
-                subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, '-m', 'runviewer'],
+                scripts_dir = desktop_app.environment.get_scripts_dir('runviewer')
+                subprocess.Popen([str(scripts_dir / 'runviewer-gui')],
                                  creationflags=creationflags, stdout=None, stderr=None,
                                  close_fds=True)
             else:
