Re: GNUstep "open" tool

[Nicola Pero]

I mildly agree with not adding the functionality ... the idea is that
gopen is used to open a local file in the local directory, calling the
appropriate viewer.  An .app file/directory is just a special builtin case
... it's an application folder, which is opened by running it.

To search all system/local/user/home directories for an application and
run it, you use `openapp OpenUp.app' instead ... this will search for the
application wherever it can be found.  `gopen file' just opens a local
file, I would consider it confusing if it automatically searched and
opened non-local files somewhere else on the disk.

> Jeff
> 
> Actually, I just checked on my NeXT box running OS4.2, the OPENSTEP "open"
> doesn't do this.  When I say:
> 
> open OpenUp.app  (which is in LocalApps on my machine) 
> 
> from a terminal and I am not in a directory which contains the application, it
> does not automatically launch the application.  It says "Can't stat file
> /home/heron/OpenUp.app."  I have tried with several other applications as 
> well.
>   On the other hand, when I type "open somthing.zip" it does get opened or 
> when
> I go to LocalApps and type "open OpenUp.app" it starts as well.
> 
> I'm wondering if this could be added as a "feature" for GNUstep, but I'm
> tempted to maintain compatibility.
> 
> Later, GJC
> 
> --- Jeff Teunissen <deek@d2dc.net> wrote:
> > Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > > 
> > > I committed this to the repository.   The tool is called "gopen" and is
> > > in the gui/Tools directory.  Just a few notes on it:
> > > 
> > > 1) You must have installed the applications into the appropriate
> > > "well-known" locations for this to work when opening a file.  When
> > > make_services scans all of the applications it builds a plist called
> > > .GNUstepAppList in the ~/GNUstep/Services directory.
> > > 
> > > 2) The application must declare which files it handles in it's
> > > Info-gnustep.plist (under Resources in the app wrapper) file since this
> > > is what make_services uses to build the file mentioned above.
> > > 
> > > I have tested this with Gorm.app, Ink.app and ImageViewer.app and it
> > > seems to work very well.
> > > 
> > > Please let me know if there are any issues.
> > 
> > I just patched gopen locally, to make it search the well-known paths for
> > apps,
> > like *step "open" does. It's attached to this message, if you'd like to
> > include it or something similar into the standard gopen.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > -- 
> > | Jeff Teunissen  -=-  Pres., Dusk To Dawn Computing  -=-  deek @ d2dc.net
> > | GPG: 1024D/9840105A   7102 808A 7733 C2F3 097B  161B 9222 DAB8 9840 105A
> > | Core developer, The QuakeForge Project        http://www.quakeforge.net/
> > | Specializing in Debian GNU/Linux              http://www.d2dc.net/~deek/>
> Index: gopen.m
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/gnustep/gnustep/core/gui/Tools/gopen.m,v
> > retrieving revision 1.1
> > diff -u -r1.1 gopen.m
> > --- gopen.m 2001/11/18 19:01:07     1.1
> > +++ gopen.m 2001/11/22 08:12:36
> > @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
> >  #include <Foundation/NSTask.h>
> >  #include <Foundation/NSAutoreleasePool.h>
> >  #include <Foundation/NSException.h>
> > +#include <Foundation/NSPathUtilities.h>
> > +#include <Foundation/NSFileManager.h>
> >  #include <AppKit/NSApplication.h>
> >  #include <AppKit/NSWorkspace.h>
> >  
> > @@ -72,14 +74,31 @@
> >       {
> >         if( [ext isEqualToString: @"app"] )
> >           {
> > +           NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
> >             NSString *appName = 
> >               [[file lastPathComponent] stringByDeletingPathExtension];
> >             NSString *executable = 
> >               [file stringByAppendingPathComponent: appName];
> > -           NSTask *task = nil;
> > -
> > -           if ([NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: executable arguments: 
> > nil] == nil)
> > -             printf("Unable to launch application at path %s.\n",[file 
> > cString]);
> > +           
> > +           if ( [fm fileExistsAtPath: executable] )
> > +             {
> > +               if ( ![NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: executable 
> > arguments: nil] )
> > +                 printf("Unable to launch application at path %s.\n",[file 
> > cString]);
> > +             }
> > +           else
> > +             {
> > +               NSString *fullPath;
> > +               NSEnumerator *pathEnumerator = 
> > +                 
> > [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSApplicationDirectory,
> > NSAllDomainsMask, YES) objectEnumerator];
> > +               
> > +               while ((fullPath = [pathEnumerator nextObject]))
> > +                 {
> > +                   if ( ![fm fileExistsAtPath: [fullPath 
> > stringByAppendingPathComponent:
> > file]] )
> > +                     continue;
> > +                   [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: [fullPath
> > stringByAppendingPathComponent: executable] arguments: nil];
> > +                   break;
> > +                 }
> > +             }
> >           }
> >         else
> >           {
> > 
> 
> 
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