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

[Nils]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:29:38 +0000
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:10 +0100, Till Hartamnn wrote:
> > I haven't read recent denemo-mailinglist-mails thoroughly, but:
> > for gnome it is "gnome-open filename.extension", for Windows I think
> > it 
> > was "start filename.extension", on Mac it might be "open 
> > filename.extension" (which also exists on most/all linux
> > distributions, 
> > but "open" will try to find an application able to open the final
> > inside 
> > the terminal).
> > I hope that is at least of some help to you.
> 
> Thanks for this. I have tried
> start denemoprint.pdf
> 
> on a windows vista box and it works. And, in fact,
> 
> start denemoprint.ly
> 
> successfully ran lilypond on the file.
> 
> On my Debian default setup, open failed with:
> 
> Could not get a file descriptor referring to the console
> 
> which is presumably the problem you are referring to. The gnome-open
> command worked.
> 
> How should we make use of this? One of the wrinkles is that on windows
> if the viewer is not closed the file it is viewing cannot be re-written,
> so subsequent print attempts fail.
> 
> Richard
> 

I think for Linux its no problem that people enter their tools themselves. 
Maybe (for Windows, too) a GUI file open Dialog would be nice for the 
Pref-Fields.

For Windows It might be nice to leave the pdf viewer field there, but empty. 
Empty means "start", if you enter a binary then this is used instead.
This does not solve the problem you discribed, but there is Hack that works 
right now?

To lilypond: 
I am not sure how the entire lilypond situation is handeld since we use GUB. 
Denemo has its own Lilypond now and I think the reason was (in fact I voted for 
"include ly") that a)Its secured that there is at least one Ly-version and 
b)that we know a Ly version is used that works with Denemo.
What I don't know is how this Lilyond is registered globally. There is a 
Desktop-Shortcut after installation, but afaik the GUB install does not make 
any windows-registry changes, which is very good but is a proof that Denemos 
lilypond is not globally avaible.

That means: To rely on start xy.ly, if my believe is true, will not work if 
there is no global Lilypond installed. So lets keep with the current relative 
path to lilypond-windows. Maybe it just works fine and my system crashed 
because of other reasons (it was a VM after all).

Nils