Re: How do I spawn an unknown viewer for a known file?

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > What is the platform independent way to spawn a viewer for, say, > a PDF document? I may be out of date, but I don't think this is something that is handled by GTK as such. If you're using gnome, you can call gnome_url_show() using a file://... URL f

Re: How do I spawn an unknown viewer for a known file?

Bastiaan, I looked into a solution for the similar problem last fall. I not sure if I will continue with this project so I HAVE NOT thoroughly tested it. This is what I came up with. James, >From the numa.sourceforge.net package http://ext3carve.cvs.sourceforge.net/ext3carve/gfs_watch/clien

Re: How do I spawn an unknown viewer for a known file?

Thank you Allin and James, I will differentiate per platform then. Bastiaan. ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list