Sure, a system call out would be nicest way to register a handler. Unfortunately, registering custom URI schemes seems to be completely different on every platform, as well as how they receive an activation event. OS X uses a plist, Windows a registry entry, for Linux depends on the distro. So I went for a minimal solution. But it should be doable to provide a platform-aware package that takes case of the installation.
> On 12 Oct 2017, at 09:34, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > Ok, I see. Building a native app and interfacing it from pharo is the most > reliable version. I was just thinking that having a system call out it might > be easier to make it cross-platform. I would be interested to have that > available for all platforms. > > Norbert > > Am 12.10.2017 um 09:20 schrieb Manuel Leuenberger <leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch > <mailto:leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch>>: > >> That's what I did. Only I used a native Objective-C app, as it provides a >> simple API to register to the events and will even be started if it's not >> running yet. >> >> Am 12.10.2017 08:50 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name >> <mailto:norb...@hartl.name>>: >> I think all you need is to do a system call out to the OS in order to >> register your scheme. For Mac OS it would be sonething like >> >> >> https://superuser.com/questions/548119/how-do-i-configure-custom-url-handlers-on-os-x >> >> <https://superuser.com/questions/548119/how-do-i-configure-custom-url-handlers-on-os-x> >> >> And then you can see if it is what you want. Custom handlers associate a url >> scheme to an application binary. I‘m not sure you can use an image with it. >> So I would register a shell script and handle the adoption in the script. >> >> Does that help? >> >> Norbert >> >> Am 10.10.2017 um 21:06 schrieb Manuel Leuenberger <leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch >> <mailto:leuenber...@inf.unibe.ch>>: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there any support from the VM/Application package to add custom URI >> schemes to listen to from within Pharo? I would like to have a hyperlink >> like ‘pharo://send?data=fancypants’ in an arbitrary document that, when >> clicked, switches to Pharo and calls a hook I can register. Could someone >> give me a hint how to achieve that, or do I have to build a little bridge >> application that handles the scheme registration and talks with Pharo >> through another channel? Currently, I only need this for OS X. >> >> Cheers, >> Manuel >> >>
