[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] launching maemo applications with parameters

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 15:00, ext Daniel Greenblatt wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I'm developing an application for the 770 using Python (1.1), and I can't
> figure out how to launch any of the native Maemo applications (web
> browser, image viewer) with parameters (e.g. the name of a file to
> open) from my code. I'm specifically interested in launching
> image-viewer to display a particular image file. Making a system call
> to /usr/bin/image-viewer  does indeed launch the image viewer, but it
> doesn't seem
> possible to provide it with parameters.
> 
> I know that PyMaemo 2.0 will have DBus support, and this will enable
> me to achieve this, but in the meantime, does anyone know how to get
> the same effect from the command line ?

You should not use command line. Please look at the Libossomime library
API (osso-mime.h or something) -- it allows launching handler
applications for different MIME types (such as images with Image
Viewer).

BR; Kimmo

> 
> Thanks
> Dan
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