banjo Posted June 11, 2006 Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 I have recently installed wine so that I can run Irfan View on my Mandy 2006. Irfan works great, but I am trying to put the program into the right click menu along with the other file associations and I cannot make it work right. I put the program name in there, and Irfan comes up just fine, but with no file opened. I know that Irfan can take a command line parameter, but I do not know how to specify that in the "Edit File Type" dialog box. I see some escape sequences for other programs such as %i, %m, %c and %U. Does anybody know which of these expresses the name of the file that I right clicked on. I have googled until I am blind and crazy, and I cannot find this info. Thanks Banjo (_)=='=~ [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Hi banjo. %1 should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 (edited) I tried %1 and it tried to read a file called "%1" and failed. Do I have to escape it somehow? Banjo (_)=='=~ Edit: I Googled again and found here http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/faq/filemanager.html that %i, %m, and %c are specific switches known to KDE apps. Since Irfan is a Windows app it does not understand them. Irfan reports that those parameters send: %i => -ICON %m => -MINIICON %c => I_VIEW32.EXE (the name of the program) and Irfan does not understand them. I still do not know how the file name gets reported to the app. B. Edited June 12, 2006 by banjo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 I think $1 is what you would use in scripts, eg: wine irfanview $1 and if the script was called "launchirfan", then it would be used as: launchirfan values replace values with whatever you want to launch with, and $1 will take the value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Irfan can take a file name parameter directly, so I don't think that I need a script. If I did write a script I would have to pass the file name to the script as well, so then I am left with the same question I had before, "What do I put into the File Association command line to pass the file name as an argument to the command that is being invoked?" I am beginning to suspect that it is simply built into KDE apps, and the Windows app will not ever work in that way. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 How was your command before, when you used the %1 and found that %1 was used? Was it in quotes? Please post exactly what was typed, so we can help figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 (edited) I have four programs associated with the .jpg file format, Kuickshow, Showfoto, GIMP, and now IrfanView When I invoke the dialog using Edit File Types and then edit the asoociations I get the following command lines for each of them: kuickshow %i %m -caption "%c" %U /usr/bin/gimp-remote-2.2 showfoto %i %m -caption "%c" %U "/home/brian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" %1 I need the quotes around the path to irfan because of the space in the directory name "Program Files". If I leave off the quotes it fails to find the program, i_view32.exe. When I right click and invoke IrfanView on the .jpg image Irfan runs and displays a box with this in it: %1: CAN'T READ FILE HEADER! UNKNOWN FILE FORMAT! When I click on the OK button, Irfan is running with no file open. (edited) If I drop the %1, Irfan just runs and has no file open. Is there an escape sequence in that command line field that I can use to supply the file name to IrfanView? I am running KDE 3.4.2 under Madriva 2006. Thanks again. Banjo (_)=='=~ Edited June 13, 2006 by banjo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I would be tempted to edit this entry: "/home/brian/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe" %1 and use the correct wine format of: wine "c:\program files\irfanview\i_view32.exe" this is the preferred method of launching wine apps, because issues can be encountered when using the Linux path as you've noted already. I also noticed your line doesn't have wine at the beginning of it. Try this first, and check the menu entry works, then try adding %1 after this to get it to work. If that still fails, I'd be tempted to put %U instead of %1, to see if it works this way. The %U normally deals with passing file parameters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that when I get back to my Linux box tonight. I did try %U once and it appeared to have no effect, but then I was using the Linux path to the app. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 OK, keep us posted. I'm not entirely sure it will solve the problem, but it's worth a shot. I'll see if I can find some more info on the parameters for passing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I changed my command line for the file association to wine "C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" and IrfanView comes up with no file loaded. I added in the %1 like this wine "C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" %1 and I get the error box which says that %1 is in an unkown format. So the argument "%1" is being passed into the program, but with no substitution. I tried this: wine "C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" %U and the result is the same as with no argument at all. IrfanView just comes up with no file. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 If you put the %1 inside the quotes does it work then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I will try that when I get back to my Linux box. I am at my day job now, and they don't do Linux (fools!) BTW, wine is working out quite well for this. I thought that I had been forced out of my fav IrfanView, and I am glad to have it back. Installing wine on Mandy 2006 was painless. I clicked "Install" and stuffed the DVD into the cupholder and then it worked. For Irfan I had to download mfc42.dll, and copy it into "C:\windows\system" but that was pretty easy too. I have tried to run Linux apps on fnWindows..... Not so easy. Linux rocks! Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted June 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 I just tried putting the %1 inside of the quotation marks in my file association command line. When I invoked the program, the busy cursor spun for a minute or so in the kicker icon and then it just disappeared. To see what the error was, I ran the same command line in a console: ~>wine "C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe %1" wine: cannot find 'C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe %1' I guess that since Windows file names can have spaces in them the %1 is concatenated onto the name of the executable. Bummer. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Banjo, have you tried putting both the full file path and the %1 each within the quotes? ~>wine "C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" "%1" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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