Re: How to re-edit Helper app for the "Browse File s” tool?

Den 2022-11-08 16:34 skreiv Hussein Shafie:
> On 11/8/22 15:42, Leif H Silli wrote:
>> Den 2022-11-07 10:36 skreiv Hussein Shafie:
>>> On 11/6/22 17:06, Leif H Silli wrote:


>> I would, therefore, prefer to always use the «default viewer».
> 
> Sure. We understand this.

   [ … ]

[ But ]
>> It thus seems that XXE lacks the option to set the default viwer to 
>> always be used. Or is there something that I have not gotten?
>> 
> 
> You are right. There is indeed something wrong in XXE when you prefer
> to always use the default viewer for a given file type. More
> generally, the Helper Apps feature should be more convenient to use.
> We'll try to improve this feature in the next version of XXE.

Great!

> Thank you for reporting this issue.

I discovered a simple workaround ... In the Helper Apps section of the 
Preferences, the command

     open "%U”

is (by default) defined as the «Default viewer» (strange terminology 
btw).


And it turns out that, for the PDF file type, if you replace

     open -W -n -a /System/Applications/Preview.app "%F"

with the «Default viewer» command

     open "%U”

then I get the behavior that I want: PDFs gets opend by your default 
PDF-viewer (typically the Preview.app on MacOS), and you also avoid that 
a new instance of your default PDF-viewer is opened each time you click 
the fil in XXE’s Browse Files tool.

Leif Halvard Silli


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