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Where to define file association for your documents in ADE-XL environment?

JanH

Hi,

 Well, the subject says it all: We have added a pdf document to a design's ade-xl view (section "documents") but when we try to open it (double clicking or RMB->Open) the KDE file browser "konqueror" opens and not acroread!

 I've been looking for solutions in both worlds: KDE and this community but can't find it. I would have expected this to be something trivial and well documented setup feature but it apparently isn't. 

 Any advise would be welcome.

 

Thanks,

 

Jan.

  • Hi Jan,

    The way this is supposed to work is for QT to use a service to request the window manager to open the file. With KDE, this is controlled via Konqueror. In theory you should be able to alter Konqueror's settings to get it to launch acroread; I can do this for files navigated in Konqueror by using Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations and then searching for pdf and changing it to launch Adobe Acroread first. However, the documents double clicked in ADE XL seem to be seen as "embedded" content, and I can't figure out how to make it launch acroread. If I set the Embedded tab to tell it to launch in a separate viewer, it still uses Konqueror to do it.

    I'll create a service request for you, and take this up with R&D.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

     

  • Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for filing this. We already had setup Konqueror such that it will fire acroread for pdf documents. This does work for "native" konqueror sessions: double clicking a pdf-document indeed does start acroread. But within a cadence session it doesn't seem to work this way, only konqueror gets started, using the builtin pdf viewer.

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to not be dependant upon your underlying OS & window manager but to have full control about your third party applications from within the cadence environment? It probably isn't as easy as that but I would personally prefer to have this configured (via a .cdsenv entry for example).

    Thanks for your clarification.

    Have a nice day (in the states if I'm not mistaken?).


    With kind regards,

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    Jan Hovius
    Senior EDA Engineer

    SiTel Semiconductor BV, "Design Centre Hengelo"
    Lansinkesweg 4, 7553 AE Hengelo, The Netherlands


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  • Hi Jan,

    It's a bug in ADE XL; it's not correctly telling QT the "protocol" in the URL to represent the file, and as such this means that QT gets KDE to launch it via a web browser (Konqueror) rather than using the KDE registered file association.

    Whilst I understand what you're saying, it does really make sense to use any file associations as set up in the OS - we don't want to have to duplicate things like this within the application. If it worked OK, then I don't think there would be a problem, although we also need to document it so it's clear what needs to be done.

    Anyway, hopefully we can get this fixed before too long.

    Regards,

    Andrew (yes, in the US).

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