Re: PointAndClick on Windows

[Phil Holmes]

"David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> "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".

If you click on one of the embedded links, no file is loaded in any editor. 
That's a fairly simple definition of "non-functioning".  i.e. nothing 
happens of any use.

> The
> point of point-and-click is that textedit:// links get embedded into the
> PDF.  That certainly can and does work under Windows.

Agreed.  But they do nothing useful.

> 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.


No.  It does not depend on the viewer, it depends on the operating system 
and the installed editors.

--
Phil Holmes