Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 15.04.2010 18:43, schrieb Wolfgang Lux:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2010, at 23:10, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>>
>>> One thing that should be noted is that OSX will accept things on the
>>> command line without the "NSOpen" option.   I tested this.   I don't
>>> think this works on GNUstep.
>>
>> It doesn't happen automatically on GNUstep ... that would presumably
>> need some support in NSApplication to look through the command line
>> for file names, and try to open each one.
>>
>> Unless it is just left up to the individual application to support it
>> ... in which case it *would* work on GNUstep if you ported an app
>> which happens to open its command line arguments.
>>
>> Certainly not all applications on OSX will open command line arguments
>> as documents (I just tried TextEdit which does, and MuseScore which
>> doesn't)  but that might just be because some apps don't support the
>> standard mechanisms for opening documents (eg. this feature might only
>> work for apps using NSDocumentController).
> 
> From Apple's (older) AppKit release notes (in the Section Changes
> between OpenStep 4.0 and OpenStep 4.1,
> see
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/releasenotes/cocoa/AppKitOlderNotes.html#OpenStepNotes):
> 
> 
>   NSApplication: ... In addition, all command-line options that are not
> defaults options (meaning
>   a pair of arguments where the first one starts with a "-") are now
> treated as file names to be
>   opened, as if they were prefixed with -NSOpen.
> 
> So it is not specific to document based applications (which did not
> exist at that time anyway).

Looks like a bit of coding is due. Should I do that before the next
release or should we rather wait until after the release? In itself this
should only be a tiny bug fix, but as it affects NSApplication it could
potentially break every GNUstep program.

Fred