Hi sklpns e Mans Hey guys thanks for those suggestions. As Mans said the LaunchApplicationPLugin is quite a handy plugin and I have it working well. As my students normally access the courses through Dropbox....I can put applications that they may not have installed (like Freemind mind-mapping) in a shared Dropbop folder and have LauchApps....open it....so now they can run the program, even though they dont have it installed in their computer.....
And sklpns...thnks for those directions about OpenOffice....I´ll check that out imediately. Although I am not worried about using the iframe/ pdf route.......remember the TW is to be viewed by students...so a PDF is great for them...and at the same time means that they cant mess around with my original presentation....so suits me. And in fact I starting to use TW itself as my presentation package.... which makes life even easier...and TW as a presenter has some great advantages...... Thanks Skye On 17 abr, 11:00, sklpns <skl...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey all > > this might be of some use as far as linking to files / folders within > a tw goes (at least under win xp) > > http://blog.verg.es/2007/08/sendto-clipboard-coolness-tiddlywiki.html > > it creates two new items in the "Send To" menu (accessible with right > click on the desired file in windows explorer). The first (clipboard - > file url) copies the file (or folder) url to the clipboard so it can > then be pasted to tiddler as a link to the selected file/folder. > > it can also be customized to one's liking: in my case I've set a > target attribute in the .hta file code, so that all the linked files > open within an i-frame embedded in the tw. > > @skye > > maybe exporting open office files to pdf just for the shake of making > them browser readable could be avoided. For me the following seem to > work: in the open office options menu (think you can find that in any > of the oo applications) there's a tab called network or internet > (can't say for sure as mine's not an english installation). Under that > you should see the option to use the open office plugin for firefox by > checking the relevant checkbox. > > Having done that, in the firefox options menu and in the applications > tab make sure that all the open office related entries (or the ones > you want i suppose) are set to open with the open office plugin (if > they aren't try setting them manually using the scroll menu on the > right). > > This should result in open office files being viewed within firefox. > If the relevant links are set to open in an iframe embedded in the tw > one doesn't even have to exit the tw environment at all. Only problem > is that recent firefox versions have some visibility problems with > open office files, especially within an i-frame, but nothing too > dreary I suppose. In any case and until this gets somehow resolved I;m > using ff portable version 3.6.24 for a project that relies heavily on > showing oo files within an i-frame. I'm suspecting that showing the > files in a new tab would not present major visibility issues. > > Furthermore: these guys here > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=d5644fc05b95a88eea5d17e70d69... > > explain how to use the open office firefox plugin to also view > Microsoft office files within firefox! (see both pages of the thread) > > hope this makes sense and is somewhat useful > > cheers > sklpns -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
