Re: Re: [Denemo-devel] Windows Build 0.8.13 and Menucleaning

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:40 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Am 02.02.2010 um  Uhr haben Sie geschrieben:
> > But the second download transferred ok, and I installed on a windows
> > box. I can confirm that fetta.ttf is not installed.
> > *But* the lilypond-windows invocation worked just fine.
> > Richard
> 
> I bet you already had a pdf reader installed?
yes - we are exploiting the fact that acroRd32.exe exists on most window
boxes, and guessing at that.
>  Please try to change the
> external pdf viewer to something nonexistent.
when I do that, it gives the right message about the pdf viewer. And
the .denemo/denemoprint.pdf *is* generated, i.e. lilypond-windows has
run successfully.
>  On my testsystem there is
> no pdf viewer at all. Strange thing is that pdf export did not work,
by which you mean that lilypond-windows did not run. Yes, that would be
strange, I think you misunderstood the symptoms. (<= what convinced you
it had not run?)
> too. I think this is possible without a viewer, right?
> 
> A sudden idea: We try to find out what the standard pdf reader is, guess
> where it could be etc. But there must be a command just to call the
> filename and let Windows do the opening. The same thing that happens
> when you doubleclick on a file. Maybe we can use this?

I have asked several times about this, and searched on the net. On some
systems this is called "file associations", but I have not been able to
find any clues as to how to "double-click" a file programatically under
windows or under any linux wm either.

Richard