Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Startup with Calc on OSX

> Macs don't have separate start programs. The only executable file is LibreOffice.app.

Actually they are there, just kind of hidden ;-)

LibreOffice.app is an application bundle, which is basically a directory. The difference to other 
directories is that you cannot open an .app directory by (double) clicking it in Finder. However, 
you may open LibreOffice.app via the "Show package contents" function in its context menu, the one 
you get when you ctrl+mouse click on LibreOffice.app. At command line level (that is, in Terminal) 
a, say, cd (change directory) works like for any other directory.

To help solve the original issue, here's my (quick, but hopefully not too dirty) attempt to come up 
with AppleScript code to start LibreOffice directly in Calc mode:

 1. Start Applications/Utilities/AppleScript-Editor.

 2. Copy and paste the following three lines of code (ignoring ... do ... end ...) into the 
AppleScript-Editor window:

ignoring application responses
  do shell script "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice -calc 2>&1 >/dev/null &"
end ignoring

 3. In AppleScript-Editor click Compile, to verify that the code will run. This shouldn't trigger 
any error messages.

 4. Save the script. In the save dialog window make sure to select Application as file format, 
which will change the file name extension to .app. I suggest to save the script as LibreCalc.app in 
/Applications.

Double clicking LibreCalc.app should now directly open a Calc sheet.


Hope that helps.

Rolf
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