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Bug 107302 - Windows version needs to support external windows apps
Windows version needs to support external windows apps
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.13.4
Other Windows
: Normal normal
: 0.14.0
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
: 107327 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-28 23:03 UTC by Charles Kerr
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Charles Kerr 2003-02-28 23:03:19 UTC 
Donald L McDaniel said on
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=MPG.18c951f9f0fdda6d98968f%40news.cablespeed.com

* It won't launch URLs using Internet Explorer (which I had to ADD to 
  the list of browsers.  This is a TERRIBLE gaffe).
* When it TRIES to launch URLs using Internet Explorer, it takes you to 
  a console, then dumps you out of the program.

<snip>

I understand that it is a BETA.  But 
they could at least have added Notepad to the list of editors, as well 
as adding Internet Explorer to the list of Web Browsers which launch 
URLs.
Comment 1 Charles Kerr 2003-02-28 23:11:26 UTC 
The list of applications is fixed in CVS:
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=prefs.c&rev1=1.321&rev2=1.322&root=/cvs/gnome

Still need to do work out how to span to iexplore under Windows
though.. :)
Comment 2 Charles Kerr 2003-03-01 11:25:22 UTC 
*** Bug 107327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Charles Kerr 2003-04-17 20:13:50 UTC 
This was the mail conversation I had with Todd Kulesza,
the maintainer of the dropline gtk installer:

> Hi,
>
> For the Windows build of Pan I'm directing users to the dropline
> installer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/, and I'm
> trying to get g_spawn to work right under that installation.
> It works if I copy gspawn-win32-helper.exe into my path manually,
> but otherwise, it fails.
>
> Naturally I'd like it to work for my users without manual intervention.
> Is this a problem with the gtk2.2 install, or is it something I    
          
> need to take into account in Pan's inno install script?
> If the latter, does anyone know what changes I need to make?  
>

Hi Charles,

Just as you need to set a registry key with the GTK+ library path,
I think you'll also need to put the binary path there. 
I assume you're following the direction on
www.dropline.net/gtk/support.php and already have the path
registry key created.

Try this: goto your 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\pan.exe\Path key and change the value to:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\lib;C:\Program Files\Common
Files\GTK\2.0\bin"  (of course, those paths should be modified depending
on where you have GTK+ installed).  So basically, you follow the
existing GTK+ instructions for reading the GTK+ path and make two
copied of that string.  Append "lib" to one and "bin" to the other,
then write them both out to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\pan.exe\Path,
connected by a semi-colon.

If that works, let me know and I'll add this information to the
support page.

Todd