Hi All, For what it‘s worth: I tried to use LaunchApllicationPlugin in the past, but got very irreproducible results [1].
Cheers, Ton [1] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/7d5db35c69b40bd4/c6bf5e8ff9372835?lnk=gst&q=TonG#c6bf5e8ff9372835 On Oct 11, 11:56 pm, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > For obvious security reasons, this really should not work in any > browser that gives a damn about your computer's health. I really > wonder how come it does. > > At first, clicking on any of the links when looking at... > > http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html > > ...did one of two things: > > in Firefox: absolutely nothing > in Internet Explorer: hello bluescreen > > But now that I have rebooted, downloaded that wiki and locally > modified the paths in the macro tiddler to the correct locations on my > xp installation ...it actually does start the processes! > > Big ouch! I mean, how terrifying is that?! > > This is so inviting to anything malicious that it's rather painful to > see it work. At least, thinking that a dynamically loaded library > could run stuff on my machine with this is not what I would call > comforting ...or can it not? > > So, topmost priority for any TiddlyWiki that you run locally and which > makes use of this is to NEVER load any javascript from a remote server > into such a TiddlyWiki or to have plugins installed that contact > remote servers to load stuff on demand. > > Other than that, if you're 100% certain about what you're > doing ...this is really cool stuff allowing you to mix and match > TiddlyWiki information management with your local files and > applications corresponding to your tiddlers content, esp. in > combination with FileDropPlugin [1]. > > As for your question, I simply created a windows link that runs a > program with certain parameters and, of course, shudder, it executed. > > When it comes to white spaces or other special characters in a path/ > filename ...well, don't use them. > > Would you mind sharing what specifically you use this for? > > Cheers, Tobias. > > [1]http://tiddlytools.com/#FileDropPlugin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
