Open With ... Greyed out

[Vroni]

Hi,

for images i choosed Affinity Photo as my app. But once choosen, its greyed out and is not clickable. Selecting Affinity Photo via other Apllications wrks fine, still the entry unter open with stays greyed out. Any idea? (macOs Mojave, Sigil 0.9.17)

[KevinH]

Check that Affinity Photo app in its Info.plist lists the exact file extension that you are trying to open. If an app does not list the file extension, Apple will not allow it to be opened.

[Vroni]

It is, and it works if i choose with "other applicvation" und it worked fine in Sigil 0.9.9

<string>jpg</string>
				<string>jpeg</string>
				<string>jpegxr</string>
				<string>jxr</string>
				<string>j2k</string>

[KevinH]

I am obviously not seeing this on my mac. In Sigil/src/Misc/OpenExternally.cpp
you will see that Sigil creates a detached process and runs the following command:

   if (QFile::exists(filePath) && QDir(application).exists()) {
        QStringList arguments = QStringList() << "-a" << application << filePath;
        return QProcess::startDetached("/usr/bin/open", arguments);
    }

So in Terminal.app please try running the following:

open -a YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME FULLPATHTOAFILETOBEOPENED

Does that work?

Or is this just a silly case of having a space in the application name and us needing to add quotes around the application name itself?

[Vroni]

The Appname is "Affinity Photo", so yes, it has a blank in the name.

open -a "Affinity Photo" ./cover1.jpg

works fine. But there wasnt a problem in Sigil 0.9.9.

[KevinH]

The code has not changed.

Here is that same snippet of code from Sigil 0.8.x timeframe:

if (QFile::exists(filePath) && QDir(application).exists()) {
        QStringList arguments = QStringList() << "-a" << application << filePath;
        return QProcess::startDetached("/usr/bin/open", arguments);
    }

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by Vroni

The Appname is "Affinity Photo", so yes, it has a blank in the name.

open -a "Affinity Photo" ./cover1.jpg

works fine. But there wasnt a problem in Sigil 0.9.9.

Where is the .app in the App name?

[Vroni]

I didnt typed it in, so its not present.

open -a "Affinity Photo.app" ./cover1.jpg

works as well

entry in sigil.ini

[open_with]
editors_image=Affinity Photo\x1f/Applications/Affinity Photo.app

[KevinH]

Hmm... we could try wrapping the application name in the open command in quotes but that has never been needed in the past.

What happens if you exit Sigil and then edit the sigil.ini file as follows:

editors_image=Affinity Photo\x1f"/Applications/Affinity Photo.app"

To wrap the actual application path in double quotes.

Then fire up Sigil and try.

[Vroni]

Still greyed out

[KevinH]

Perhaps a bug in the Image Tab code. Please try right clicking on the cover.jpg name in the BookBrowser window itself.

Any difference?

[KevinH]

Just found it. Definite bug in context menu creation code in ImageTab code. I will push a fix for it.

As a workaround, use right click in BookBrowser window to launch what you need.

Kevin

[KevinH]

Now fixed in master.

[Vroni]

ACK. Bookbrowser works fine.

[DiapDealer]

I never even new there was a different context menu on the tab itself that could be used with Open With. Always used the Book Browser context menu.