runscript command line ignores Eggplant preferences?

Eggplant Functional
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I have told Eggplant | Preferences that I do not want:

  1. reverse VNC connection
  2. automatic connection to the SUT on startup

And these are honored when I run Eggplant interactively. However, when I run my script via the command line ‘runscript’, here is what I get (which indicates that the reverse vnc connection is started and that it tries to connect to some machine:

2006-08-25 09:15:49.638 runscript[15840] Successfully Loaded XModule /Applications/Eggplant.app/Contents/Frameworks/ SenseTalkEngine.framework/Resources/STColor.xmodule
2006-08-25 09:15:49.870 runscript[15840] Listening For Reverse Connections on Port 5500
2006-08-25 09:15:50.805 runscript[15840] Approved License: Name = com.altera.2, Remark = , Serial = 7103, Users = 1
runscript (3.1) running in FULL mode on Host:9362328c.
2006-08-25 09:15:50.806 runscript[15840] Trying to connect - 137.57.174.236: 5900
2006-08-25 09:15:50.913 runscript[15840] Sending Password
2006-08-25 09:15:50.979 runscript[15840] CONNECTING TO SERVER SC-XP-TEST
Screen Size 1024 X 768 [32 24 0 1]
2006-08-25 09:15:51.279 runscript[15840] Connection Established
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Is there some other way to set these preferences for runscript?
Thanks!
-edj

2

Unfortunately, you can’t specify these preferences via runscript options. We’ll consider this as a feature request and will keep you updated. If you want to override the auto-connection at start-up from connecting to the wrong machine you can specify the host, port, and password options (Eggplant Reference, page 142).

3

Actually Eggplant should already honor those settings when you run Eggplant from the command line on the same account, if you run from a different account however it reverts to the default.

You can explicitly override the defaults (or the current user setting) by including these arguments in command line:

-AllowReverseConnections YES/NO
-RestoreConnection YES/NO
4

Thanks Jonathan. Guess I should have thought of that.

BTW, the commandline is getting run by a different user for automation purposes. (Maybe I should have thought of that too. :slight_smile: )

-edj

5

Hmm. I don’t see those command line options in the documentation marked version 3.1.

Is there a later version of documentation to get?

I’ll go take a peek at the website.
-edj

6

Those values aren’t explicit command-line options, those flags actually set the underlying application’s preferences.

Technically speaking, because of the Mac OS X preferencing system ALL preferences can be specified in this way. But documenting some of them would be really ugly and so it’s sort of an “as-needed” solution. Somewhat equivalent to modifying a Window’s Registry setting.

7

I see the plist file with the settings and had some fun playing with the OSX defaults command.

Thanks for the peek behind the curtain. :wink:

-edj