Re: No Service matching 'OpenURL'

Hello Richard,
Hello All,

On 2025-12-02 19:30:41 +0100 R Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 02/12/2025 15:55, Patrick Cardona wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> As we already discussed about the needed service to provide an openURL 
>> action, I tried to set some...
> 
>> - First stage: trying to get a working service to open an URL selected in a 
>> text.
> 
>> But it is not yet successful. I have not the error message, "Failed to 
>> contact service provider for 'Open URL'", but nothing happens when I use 
>> the menu "Services >  Open URL".
> 
>> I am attaching a basis of that work:
> 
>> <GNUmakefile><openURLServiceInfo.plist><service.m>
> 
>> Maybe you will find something obvious I am not able to see
> 
> 
> Sorry, I'm on my way out for the evening to a whiskey tasting, so I can't 
> look at your code at the moment (and I won't be fit to do so later).
> 
> However,  there's a working example at 
> https://github.com/gnustep/tests-examples in gui/ExampleService/example.m
> 
> To get it in place you run
> 
>   make install
> 
> followed by
> 
>   make_services
> 
> 
> To test, highlight some text (eg in Ink.app) and select the appropriate 
> services menu item.

So I simplified and adapted the code, built and installed the service. I logged out to be sure the service is available. And finally I got the expected menu under 'Services' with 'Open URL' action ('Ouvrir URL' in my French context) while selecting an URL in a text within TexTEdit or Ink.

But I got then this error:
	Failed to contact service provider for 'Open URL' 

> 
> 
> The code tries to use mozilla by default,  but you can set the NSWebBrowser 
> default to be the format string to create the appropriate command to open the 
> URL using another browser.
> 

I also installed firefox and tweaked the code to use the '-url' option, not '-remote'.

I attached the code adapted from 'tests-examples': which is my second attempt, not the same code I provided previously.

<openURLService.tar.gz>

and a screenshot of the error:

<screenshot_2025-12-03_at_10:57:56.png>

Cheers,
Patrick

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