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Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line
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Fred Kiefer |
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Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:32:25 +0200 |
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Am 15.04.2010 18:43, schrieb Wolfgang Lux:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2010, at 23:10, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>>
>>> One thing that should be noted is that OSX will accept things on the
>>> command line without the "NSOpen" option. I tested this. I don't
>>> think this works on GNUstep.
>>
>> It doesn't happen automatically on GNUstep ... that would presumably
>> need some support in NSApplication to look through the command line
>> for file names, and try to open each one.
>>
>> Unless it is just left up to the individual application to support it
>> ... in which case it *would* work on GNUstep if you ported an app
>> which happens to open its command line arguments.
>>
>> Certainly not all applications on OSX will open command line arguments
>> as documents (I just tried TextEdit which does, and MuseScore which
>> doesn't) but that might just be because some apps don't support the
>> standard mechanisms for opening documents (eg. this feature might only
>> work for apps using NSDocumentController).
>
> From Apple's (older) AppKit release notes (in the Section Changes
> between OpenStep 4.0 and OpenStep 4.1,
> see
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/cocoa/AppKitOlderNotes.html#OpenStepNotes):
>
>
> NSApplication: ... In addition, all command-line options that are not
> defaults options (meaning
> a pair of arguments where the first one starts with a "-") are now
> treated as file names to be
> opened, as if they were prefixed with -NSOpen.
>
> So it is not specific to document based applications (which did not
> exist at that time anyway).
Looks like a bit of coding is due. Should I do that before the next
release or should we rather wait until after the release? In itself this
should only be a tiny bug fix, but as it affects NSApplication it could
potentially break every GNUstep program.
Fred
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, (continued)
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Martin Dietze, 2010/04/15
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, David Chisnall, 2010/04/15
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Markus Hitter, 2010/04/15
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, David Chisnall, 2010/04/15
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Nicola Pero, 2010/04/15
- Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Niels Grewe, 2010/04/15
Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Gregory Casamento, 2010/04/14
Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line, Riccardo Mottola, 2010/04/14