On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:56:09 +0100, in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Oliver Sampson <olsam@quickaudio.com> wrote: > Howdy, > In my continuing effort to get Agent up and as functional as possible, > I'm now looking into launching applications. > > For example, if I have a .jpg file attached to an email, double > clicking it should be able to open an application (like gimp) to view > the attachment. > > I've run into a couple of problems with this. The first is that gimp > tries to open a file called F:\temp\xyz.jpg. Of course gimp doesn't > know anything about "F:" When passing the message to the native linux > system, is there a way to cull/map drive letters? > > Secondly, Agent has a Data\temp subdirectory called temp to store the > file while an application uses that file. When passing the file name > to the it just references the temp\filename. This makes sense from > Agent's point of view because its current directory is whichever data > directory from which it is run. Is there a way to use this > information to map back to native system? > > Thirdly, when passing the file reference to the native linux app, it > appears (from the gimp error message) that the Windows slashes "\" are > used not the Unix "/". Is there a way to map these for the native > system? > > And fourthly, when a file name under the windows system has spaces in > the title, gimp thinks it's actually different file names. Is there a > way to put the filename in quotes for the native Linux system? > > Or have I found my first wine development projects? I sent in such a patch in Jan 2000, nearly 2 year ago. I don't know why it was never committed or whether it was rejected. If you are interested: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rklazes/tmp/UnixProc.diff it needs of course some (perhaps a lot of) work to get it working on the current wine. If you feel like doing that, please do. Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes@xs4all.nl
