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Cross-platform inconsistencies in command-line options
Hello,
I appreciate the following command-line options (of course, besides the usual loading of files through command-line, which works similarly on all supported platforms:
- komodo -V. A separate program or script can check which version of Komodo is installed and takes required actions if it is the wrong version,... but, under Windows, you got a dialog box instead of the string returned to stdout. Impossible to "capture" and use the string displayed in that dialog box. Why is it different from the Linux/Mac OS X behavior?
- komodo myExt-ko.xpi. It prompts the user to install the extension. This is very critical for my application (integration of the R language with Komodo), because I would like R to install a specific extension in Komodo if it is missing. The user still can cancel installation in the dialog box that appears, so, this is not too invasive I think... but wait... why doesn't it work under Windows (the command just activates Komodo, but nothing happens, may be is it a bug)?
- Under Mac OS X, I have to create a symbolic link manually. Shouldn't this be a job for an installer?
Best,
Philippe Grosjean
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You should be able to just do this:
ko.open.URI("http://mysite.com/path/to/extension.xpi");
Unless there is something I am not understanding from the description of what you are doing.
BTW, you should add your extension to our addons list (http://community.activestate.com/addons). See http://community.activestate.com/node/add/xpi
shanec wrote:
You should be able to just do this:
ko.open.URI("http://mysite.com/path/to/extension.xpi");
Yes, I know. It works on my Mac OS X and on my Ubuntu, but not on my Windows XP. That said, I want to install the extension that initiates a communication between Komodo and R. So, at this stage, I cannot run a JavaScript command in Komodo from R, but I have access to the command line instruction (the goal being a semi-automatic configuration of Komodo piloted by R).
I will contribute the addons to both http://community.activestate.com/addons, and http://cran.r-project.org (the R equivalent), once it will be finished. For the moment, it is just available on our development site. If you want, you can visit http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K and http://r-forge.r-project.org/sciviews.
I hope that a support for R will be an interesting addition to Komodo: R (i.e., the S language) is a respected authority among the scientific community.
On windows, komodo.exe is a subsystem windows build, but you can also use ko.exe to get the console subsystem. You can use ko.exe to get the version, but use komodo.exe to launch the UI.
It is a bit of off topic, but I downloaded your extension because on your page (http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-K/index.html) you have a Komodo window with R source code highlighting. I thought that after installing the extension I will get that, but no luck. Is it part of the xpi file, or is it something completely separate?