[PD] external viewers for additional file types ?

[Pete Redest]

Will take a look at the code and check for use of tk_fileChooser - may
be someone has more specific info I can use.

BTW, I am guessing that the particular bad behavior when clicking on a
PDF file, is that there is a bug in the browser, whereby it takes the ".pd"
of the ".pdf" suffix and "believes" it is a PD file, then tries to open it 
in
PD. That looks at first as a "hang" but if I wait 2 minutes, I see a lot of
binary-printed insults in the PD log area, like:
.....
GEM: with help by Guenter Geiger, Daniel Heckenberg, Cyrille Henry, et al.
GEM: using MMX optimization
error: %PDF-1.3: no such object
error: ?????l?à?Ù\}gßf??Õ\}???ûýòÇæÃõ]vê?dEÆÓB: no such object
..... etc ad-infinitum (well, not really infinitum: a few thousand lines 
like that).


>From: carmen <_ at whats-your.name>
>To: pd-list at iem.at
>Subject: Re: [PD] external viewers for additional file types ?
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:48:51 -0400
>
> > Is there a way to define external viewers for files, e.g. a list of the
> > kind:
> > pdf    /usr/bin/acroread
> > text   /usr/bin/gvim
> > mov  /usr/bin/xine
> > txt     internal
> > [mM]akefile internal
> > TODO internal
> > ....
> > Get the drift?. If there isn't such capability
>
>theres something like this for gnome, where if you run 'gnome-remote 
>/path/to/some.pdf' it will launch evince. osux has something similar, 
>called 'open' i think. on windows, im not sure what you do, maybe 'exec 
>explorer.exe filename'..
>
>im pretty sure pd just uses the tk_fileChooser so youre going to have to 
>figure out how to override its default somehow.. maybe check the tk docs? 
>and check pd.tk. its surely no more than a few lines to do what you want, 
>on all the platforms..
>
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