>>>>> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bennett> It doesn't seem to have any effect: on a new user account
Bennett> (needed since if the user has already customized the default
Bennett> application for a particular document type, "auto" works),
Bennett> .pdf files get opened with QuickTime Viewer, even though the
Bennett> Finder opens them in Preview.
Try the new version attached.
Bennett> By the way, after some more digging I've discovered that
Bennett> there has been some effort to unify the various TeX
Bennett> distributions on Mac. In the future, /usr/texbin is the only
Bennett> path that will be needed, and so I've added that to the PATH
Bennett> prefix on my local copy. (Once the open/ auto issue is
Bennett> resolved, I'll submit a new patch.
That would be very good.
Bennett> Meanwhile, here's an updated patch for 1.4's lyxrc.dist that
Bennett> includes /usr/texbin (and the gwTeX paths as well). [This
Bennett> supercedes the patch I posted to bugzilla.]
I'll apply it.
JMarc
Index: src/support/os_unix.C
===================================================================
--- src/support/os_unix.C (revision 16535)
+++ src/support/os_unix.C (working copy)
@@ -126,7 +126,11 @@ bool canAutoOpenFile(string const & ext,
CFStringRef cfs_ext = CFStringCreateWithBytes(kCFAllocatorDefault,
(UInt8 *) ext.c_str(), ext.length(),
kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1, false);
- LSRolesMask role = (mode == VIEW) ? kLSRolesViewer : kLSRolesEditor;
+ // this is what we would like to do but it seems that the
+ // viewer for PDF is often quicktime...
+ //LSRolesMask role = (mode == VIEW) ? kLSRolesViewer : kLSRolesEditor;
+ (void)mode;
+ LSRolesMask role = kLSRolesAll;
FSRef outAppRef;
OSStatus status =
LSGetApplicationForInfo(kLSUnknownType, kLSUnknownCreator,
@@ -150,13 +154,17 @@ bool autoOpenFile(string const & filenam
{
#ifdef __APPLE__
// Reference: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/LaunchServicesReference/
- FSRef fileref;
- OSStatus status =
- FSPathMakeRef((UInt8 *) filename.c_str(), &fileref, NULL);
- if (status != 0)
- return false;
+ FSRef fileref;
+ OSStatus status =
+ FSPathMakeRef((UInt8 *) filename.c_str(), &fileref, NULL);
+ if (status != 0)
+ return false;
- LSRolesMask role = (mode == VIEW) ? kLSRolesViewer : kLSRolesEditor;
+ // this is what we would like to do but it seems that the
+ // viewer for PDF is often quicktime...
+ //LSRolesMask role = (mode == VIEW) ? kLSRolesViewer : kLSRolesEditor;
+ (void)mode;
+ LSRolesMask role = kLSRolesAll;
FSRef outAppRef;
status = LSGetApplicationForItem(&fileref, role, &outAppRef, NULL);
