Further safety-valves for non-blocking execution, especially on Windows

Author: willend

tools/Python/mccodelib/utils.py

@@ -918,6 +918,10 @@ def call_if_not_none(fct, *args):
         ''' shorthand utility for calling a function if it is defined, and otherwise ignoring it '''
         if fct:
             fct(*args)
+
+    if os.name == 'nt':
+        cmd = 'start ' + cmd
+
     if not cwd:
         cwd = os.getcwd()
 

tools/Python/mcgui/mcgui.py

@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ def handleMcDisplayWeb(self):
             DISPLAY="mxdisplay"
         self.emitter.status('Running ' + DISPLAY + '-webgl-classic...')
         try:
-            cmd = DISPLAY+'-webgl-classic --default -n100 ' + os.path.basename(self.state.getInstrumentFile()) + '&'
+            cmd = DISPLAY+'-webgl-classic -y -n100 ' + os.path.basename(self.state.getInstrumentFile()) + '&'
             self.emitter.message(cmd, gui=True)
             self.emitter.message('', gui=True)