On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:31:40 +0100, Rein Klazes <rklazes@xs4all.invalid> wrote: >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. Thanks. I'll have a look into it. Oliver ==================================================== Oliver Sampson olsam@quickaudio.com http://www.oliversampson.com
