Preserve selected data server in movie frames#9092
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Done with Claude Sonnet 5
Fix #8209.
When running gmt movie, the selected GMT_DATA_SERVER was not consistently preserved inside the frame sessions. As a result, gmt --show-dataserver could report a different server in the movie script than the one configured in the parent session.
This PR ensures that the active data server setting is propagated correctly to movie frame sessions.
Fix: swapped the order at all 6 locations where scripts are generated (preflight, postflight, intro title-frame loop x2, main script x2), so
cp -f gmt.conf .now runs beforegmt begin.Test
The issue can be reproduced with:
Expected result: the same data server name should be printed twice (once in the terminal and once from inside the movie script). For example: