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mijonuha
July 4th, 2012, 03:39 PM
Dear friends
I need to make a program that opens the current local html file in gedit. I have found some code to run a local application from your firefox browser. but the problem is that this code is written for windows. I have changed the code still it does not work for me. I put the code here. please help me correct the code:


<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p/><input type="button" width="15" value="Run Exe" onclick="RunGEdit();"/></input></p>

<script type="text/javascript">
function RunGEdit()
{
if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") == -1)
{
alert("Currently active folder links supported only for Mozilla Firefox web browser");
return;
}
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege ("UniversalXPConnect");
var localFile =
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile );
var env =
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/environment;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIEnvironme nt);
localFile.initWithPath("/usr/bin/gedit");
var process =
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
process.init(localFile);
process.run(false, document.URL, 1);


}
</script>
</body>
</html>
mijonuha
July 4th, 2012, 03:59 PM
even though with a lot of trouble, finally i found the answer:


function RunGEdit()
{
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege ('UniversalXPConnect');
var exe = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile );
exe.initWithPath("/usr/bin/gedit");
var run = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/process/util;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
run.init(exe);
var parameters = [document.URL];
run.run(true, parameters,parameters.length);
}