Re: PointAndClick on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Bugs" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:02 AM
> Subject: Re: PointAndClick on Windows
>
>
>> 2013/4/8 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
>>> As far as I'm aware, point and click doesn't, and can't, work on Windows.
>>> See
>>> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Point-and-Click-does-not-work-on-Windows-td115986.html
>>> for details.  I'd like to raise a bug report for this, so that I
>>> can get the
>>> opportunity to fix it at an appropriate time in the development
>>> cycle. Just
>>> want to check that no-one disagrees and has it working out of the box.
>>
>> You're referring to point-and-click right from pdf viewer?
>> Because if you mean Frescobaldi's use of point-and-click as well, i
>> have to say that it always worked for me on windows.
>> Janek
>>
>
> Correct.  I assume Frescobaldi implements its own point-and-click
> helper, which fixes the non-functioning of the as-delivered version.

Frescobaldi has its own viewer.  I have a hard trouble understanding
what you mean by "non-functioning of the as-delivered version".  The
point of point-and-click is that textedit:// links get embedded into the
PDF.  That certainly can and does work under Windows.

The question is how to make the PDF viewer do something, and the answer
for that depends on the PDF viewer.  It is not, as far as I can see,
related to the operating system.  The PDF viewer might delegate the URI
interpretation to some generic mechanism and/or it might have ways to
handle some forms itself when properly configured.

-- 
David Kastrup