launching app from within base

> On Monday 23 April 2012, 07:17:55 brainflakes wrote:
>
>> Mark Stanton wrote
>>
>> >  What type of application, why, to do with what?
>>
>> Simply to pass a path to an application (a filename, for instance) and
>> launch that application.
>
> Sorry, I don't know anything about Base - but in Writer you just insert a
> "Hyperlink", chose "Document" and enter a Document URL. If the document has
> a
> extension/MIMEtype/whatever which is known to the system, the default app
> will
> open the document. That's at least how it works here.
>

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 07:53, Nino [via Document Foundation Mail
> Archive]<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> On Monday 23 April 2012, 07:17:55 brainflakes wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Stanton wrote
>>>
>>>>   What type of application, why, to do with what?
>>> Simply to pass a path to an application (a filename, for instance) and
>>> launch that application.
>> Sorry, I don't know anything about Base - but in Writer you just insert a
>> "Hyperlink", chose "Document" and enter a Document URL. If the document has
>> a
>> extension/MIMEtype/whatever which is known to the system, the default app
>> will
>> open the document. That's at least how it works here.
>>
> Thanks! I don't see a URL setting in the Table Design. "Other" doesn't
> seem to be the correct type.
>
>
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> Le 23/04/12 16:17, brainflakes a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> > For instance, If one had a database of images, at various locations,  a
> > click of the mouse (say on an icon provided in the search result form next
> > to the image name) could launch photoshop with the path/filename of the
> > image file and photoshop would load the image ready for editing. LO base
> > provides the search mechanism, photoshop provides the editing features.
> >
> > I don't know why someone wouldn't want this feature. I've used this in
> > filemaker and it has been a great time saver.
> >
>
> Ah, you mean clickable links in Base that might actually do something
> useful ;-)
>
> Well, you won't find anything out of the box, you would have to code it
> using a script, e.g. LO Basic. use cURL to take the name of the file
> then pass it to the "shell" command - I had read somewhere a while ago
> though that this didn't actually work anymore. Anyway you're going to
> have to experiment with Basic or some other supported scripting language
> if you want to do that.
>
>

> Nino wrote
> >
> >
> > Sorry, I don't know anything about Base - but in Writer you just insert a
> > "Hyperlink", chose "Document" and enter a Document URL. If the document
> > has a
> > extension/MIMEtype/whatever which is known to the system, the default app
> > will
> > open the document. That's at least how it works here.
> >
>
> As I said, I don't see a "type" for URL other than text. But, it looks like
> I could implement a macro or I also see there is some sort of python link in
> OL. I don't know much about how to write OL macros, but on briefly looking,
> it looks like it is too hard.
>
> Anyone know if python integration is supported well?
>
> Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

> Le 23/04/12 16:17, brainflakes a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> > For instance, If one had a database of images, at various locations,  a
> > click of the mouse (say on an icon provided in the search result form next
> > to the image name) could launch photoshop with the path/filename of the
> > image file and photoshop would load the image ready for editing. LO base
> > provides the search mechanism, photoshop provides the editing features.
> >
> > I don't know why someone wouldn't want this feature. I've used this in
> > filemaker and it has been a great time saver.
> >
>
> Ah, you mean clickable links in Base that might actually do something
> useful ;-)
>
> Well, you won't find anything out of the box, you would have to code it
> using a script, e.g. LO Basic. use cURL to take the name of the file
> then pass it to the "shell" command - I had read somewhere a while ago
> though that this didn't actually work anymore. Anyway you're going to
> have to experiment with Basic or some other supported scripting language
> if you want to do that.
>
>

>
> --- On Tue, 24/4/12, drew jensen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> From: drew jensen <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: launching app from within base
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Tuesday, 24 April, 2012, 2:21
>
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:37 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > Le 23/04/12 16:17, brainflakes a écrit :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > For instance, If one had a database of images, at various locations,  a
> > > click of the mouse (say on an icon provided in the search result form next
> > > to the image name) could launch photoshop with the path/filename of the
> > > image file and photoshop would load the image ready for editing. LO base
> > > provides the search mechanism, photoshop provides the editing features.
> > >
> > > I don't know why someone wouldn't want this feature. I've used this in
> > > filemaker and it has been a great time saver.
> > >
> >
> > Ah, you mean clickable links in Base that might actually do something
> > useful ;-)
> >
> > Well, you won't find anything out of the box, you would have to code it
> > using a script, e.g. LO Basic. use cURL to take the name of the file
> > then pass it to the "shell" command - I had read somewhere a while ago
> > though that this didn't actually work anymore. Anyway you're going to
> > have to experiment with Basic or some other supported scripting language
> > if you want to do that.
> >
> >
> Hi Alex
>
> Right - that is the answer and it is very very simple.
>
> //drew
>
>
>
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