[Gnumed-devel] force-opening a gif (or other files) on Mac

[James Busser]

On 30-Dec-07, at 3:02 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > and in the case of the file reference that contained a .gif I was  
> > able to
> > copy it to a visible directory and open it with one of the Mac's  
> > viewer
> > applications (Preview)
> How did you open the copy ?

First I copied it to my visible file area using the Terminal  
application which uses bash.

> - by simply double-clicking the file
        the above worked after I changed the file extension to .gif

> - by opening the context menu on the file and using "open with ..."
	yes, however on account of the incompatibility of the original file  
extension (.tmp) I had to change the listed applications from  
"Recommended" to "All". The equivalent of such "force opening" can be  
achieved via drag-and-drop on the Mac by holding down the Mac option 
+command keys before dragging the file of interest onto the icon of  
the application of interest.

> - by opening a Mac graphics viewer and loading the file explicitely ?
	this works only after changing the file extension to something  
compatible like .gif

> > Tools > config registry ... unhandled exception
> This is being deprecated.

... because ???


> See this page
>         http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ConfigFiles

This suggests that I may need to set up a file
        mime_type2file_extension.conf

I could not see that any such file is included (for example) in the  
Mac app that Sebastian bundled... does it need to be created "from  
scratch" and should it be copied inside the GNUmed_0.2.8.0 "package"  
that I downloaded and if so should it reside at the level of
        gm-from-cvs.conf
inside
        (app)/Contents/Resources
or else at the level of
        export
        logs
        xDT
in
        ~/djb/gnumed/