From: Dave Wooldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:59:09 -0800
Theo,
You wrote:
How can I let the user choose which app to open a .html or .xml file
with, from within my own app?
You know how HTML editors let you preview your file in a "proper
browser".
How is it done these days?
The current way that I do it in my HelpLogic app
<http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/> is by allowing users to add
their
favorite HTML editors and viewers to HelpLogic's existing external app
menus, which are maintained "behind the scenes" as XML files. The
user's
selected app's GetSaveInfo is Base64-encoded and saved in the XML
file.
When a user selects that app from the menu in HelpLogic to open/view a
particular HTML file, HelpLogic Base64-decodes the GetSaveInfo from
the XML
file, and uses a Shell command to open the selected HTML file in that
selected external app.
This approach works very well cross-platform (Mac and Windows) and
allows
users to add as many of their favorite HTML editors and viewers/
browsers to
HelpLogic as they want.
Hope that helps...
Aha, "open" works perfectly! Why didn't I think of that!
open -a "/Applications/ElfData XML Editor OSX/XML Editor" "Desktop/
CurlTest.txt"
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http://elfdata.com/plugin/
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