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EastEriq · 11-03-2024, 03:01 PM

Motivated by https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=363115, I'm trying to figure out what is the mechanics by which a handler works on a given file. As is known, I can write in /mnt/ext1/system/config/handlers.cfg the default program associated to a given file, so that it will be opened with it when tapping; I can associate a given file extension to a list of programs in extensions.cfg, so that I get on long press a menu for choosing which of them opens it.
I then created a small script in /mnt/ext1/applications/ in order get more insight. My script reads

Code:

#!/bin/sh
dialog 1 "" "$* $0 $! $1 $@" "Ok"
 echo "$* $0 $! $1 $@" > /mnt/ext1/applications/handle.log

If I call this script from shell with or without command line arguments, I get the expected result, that is a dialog with some text and button labels. However, if I tap on a file associated to that script, I only see a hourglass for a second, and see get no new content in the dump file handle.log. What am I missing?

11-03-2024, 03:01 PM	#1
EastEriq Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 195502 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Cybook Orizon, PocketBook Touch HD	How do handlers work? Motivated by https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=363115, I'm trying to figure out what is the mechanics by which a handler works on a given file. As is known, I can write in /mnt/ext1/system/config/handlers.cfg the default program associated to a given file, so that it will be opened with it when tapping; I can associate a given file extension to a list of programs in extensions.cfg, so that I get on long press a menu for choosing which of them opens it. I then created a small script in /mnt/ext1/applications/ in order get more insight. My script reads Code: #!/bin/sh dialog 1 "" "$* $0 $! $1 $@" "Ok" echo "$* $0 $! $1 $@" > /mnt/ext1/applications/handle.log If I call this script from shell with or without command line arguments, I get the expected result, that is a dialog with some text and button labels. However, if I tap on a file associated to that script, I only see a hourglass for a second, and see get no new content in the dump file handle.log. What am I missing?