Non-REPL usage

[timholy]

Breakage reported here. I've verified it (even if you add showall(win)).

[hustf]

Not quite the same symptoms, but perhaps same cause as for #165?

[vtjnash]

yep, looks like without isinteractive, the code no longer creates the gtk_main task automatically (b56e8da#diff-0000751d49843767d583b66145fa8b46R18)

[astrieanna]

Is this going to be fixed soon?
If not, would altering the section of the readme that talks about how to make Gtk things work without the REPL to contain the solution from StackOverflow be an improvement?

[paulmelis]

This issue appears to be still there with Julia 1.5.3 and 1.6 RC1. I indeed found the stackoverflow post mentioned by OP to figure out why no window was shown by my Gtk.jl script.

Apart from that, even the example from the Getting Started section in the docs does not work outside the REPL without adding Gtk.gtk_main(). And the docs contain no mention of gtk_main when searching for it. The only other mention of non-REPL use of scripts using Gtk.jl is for handling premature closure of a window at the end of a script.

[tknopp]

fixed here: https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Gtk.jl/blob/master/docs/src/manual/nonreplusage.md

but unfortunately the docs do not deploy right now. :-(

[tknopp]

ok, docs are now updated. This now can be closed.