[Zope-dev] ExternalEditor & Windows

Casey Duncan casey@zope.com
Wed, 22 May 2002 09:10:57 -0400


On Wednesday 22 May 2002 04:19 am, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> how do I start this, I made the changes in the browser (opera), install=
ed=20
> the latest Python-2.2.1 with tk-support. I can start zopeedit-win32.py =
by=20
> dubbleclick, but than it terminates cause of missing arguments. But whe=
n I=20
> select  zopeedit-win32.py in Opera for application/x-zope-edit, and cli=
ck=20
> on the pencil, I get cannot start application. When I enter=20
> /path_to_python/pythonw /path_to_ZE/zopeedit-win32.py
> and click on the pencil, the sandbox is there for some moments and noth=
ing=20
> else visible happens.
>=20
> Can someone give me some insight ?

I'm not familiar with Opera but it sounds like you need to tell it where =
to=20
pass the file name argument. In Netscape 4, you use %s. My advice would b=
e to=20
look at other content-types in the helper app configuration and see if th=
ere=20
are any special incantations shown in them.

-Casey