[haiku-development] Re: Adding RDEFs to non-binary files
- From: PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Haiku dev <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:23:34 +0100
The BeOS way of using shell scripts this way is to wrap them with xicon:
http://www.goodeveca.net/beos/xicon.html
A cleaner integration of this would be nice.
2015-02-27 9:38 GMT+01:00 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
> On 27.02.2015 00:39, Augustin Cavalier wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to create a "javah" command that behaves like the "javaw"
>> command on Windows, so that when a user double-clicks a .jar file it
>> launches. I've created a shell script that does the job pretty well, and
>> a RDEF to go with it.
>>
>
> "javah" is already taken (by the JNI header/stub generator). And the
> purpose of javaw on Windows is actually just to start a non-console
> application (a problem that doesn't exist on Haiku). It has only indirectly
> to do with starting JARs on double click.
>
> Anyway, a separate application -- a real application, not a script --
> could do the trick of running a JAR. However, that is really only a
> solution for this situation. There are similar ones that have the same
> issue.
>
> What is missing in Haiku is an option to associate a file type with a
> command line instead of a preferred application. For JAR files one would
> simply set "java -jar %f". This would also be a solution for all file types
> where the handling application would actually be a script.
>
> However, how do I add the attributes from the RDEF to the shell script?
>> Xres corrups the file (obviously). I can copy a preexisting binary file
>> (e.g. cp), xres the compiled RDEF onto it, and then "copyattr" to the
>> shell script, but that's more a hack than a real solution...
>>
>
> The procedure is: 1. rc to resource file, 2. use resattr to add the
> resources as attributes. However, then you have the usual application
> attributes on a script, but I believe that doesn't help you with setting
> the script as a preferred application for a file type. I'm fairly sure
> BMimeType and/or BRoster check that the file is actually an application.
>
> CU, Ingo
>
>
>
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