RE: [ jEdit-users ] zero length file (was 3.2pre9 better, but ...)

[<HaJ...@ar...>]

> > I can reproduce this behaviour with jEdit 3.1 (Win NT 4 SP 6 , IE 5.5).
> > I am not using the Explorer. I use Ontrack's PowerDesk.
> > Version of Winnt\system32\shell32.dll : 4.72.3612.1700
> > I created a zero length file and choose "open with jEdit" from the
context
> > menu. I got the error message
> > C:\WINNT\profiles\hajo is a directory. Directories cannot be opened
from
> > jEdit. (no other error message)
> >
> > But I can open the file with my perl-Script, which uses JEditLauncher.
> >
> > use Win32::OLE;
> >
> > $launcher = Win32::OLE->new('JEdit.JEditLauncher') ||
> >    die "JEditLauncher: not found !\n";
> >
> > @files = ();
> >
> > foreach $entry (@ARGV) {
> >     @new = glob($entry);
> >     push(@files,@new);
> > }
> > $launcher->openFiles(\@files);
> >
> > Hope that can help you.
> > --
> > Hajo
> >
>
> It does, thanks.  Could you try this in your script:
>
> $zerolength = "[path of zero-length file]";
> $launcher->openFile($zerolength);
>
> and let me know if it works?
>
> John
>
Hi,

I changed my script to

$file="C:\\tmp\\x";
$launcher->openFile($file);

and it works.

--
Hajo