[Wine] Re: Starting a Linux application for a windows file in wine

[vitamin]

dreamstogo wrote:
> Thank you vitamin and Dan Kegel.
> 
> Here's what I had to do to get this working from within Infocentral.
> 
> I created the run_prog as per the code from vitamin. I made it executable.
> 
> I added a key to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls] with data as "xcelfile"
> 
> I added the key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xcelfile\Shell\Open\command]
> /usr/bin/run_prog /usr/bin/oocalc "%1"
> 
> Note that the command is slightly different from that posted by vitamin. I don't know why, but it works. Now when I click on an excel file in Infocentral, oocalc opens the spreadsheet correctly. 
> 
> - I didn't need the /bin/sh
> - I did need to fully qualify the run_prog path.
> - I didn't need the \"%1\", I just needed "%1"
> 
> This has also solved my spaces in path names issue - the "" I suppose.
> 
> Now I need to create entries for .doc files etc. 
> 
> Thank you very much for your excellent help and speed of reply. 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Hilary


What I posted was a contents of the .reg file. You can't write "blah"foo"" in the regfile - all extra double quotes have to be escaped.
Using /bin/sh will work on _ALL_ *NIXes. You can put "run_prog" anywhere on your $PATH. Hard-coding the location of "run_prog" will work for you only.