[Pythonmac-SIG] passing a url to a helper application

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 20, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Daniel Greenblatt wrote:

> I was able to succesfully write a helper application in Python,
> (mostly from people's help on this list!!)
> by making it listen for AppleEvents, specifically for the 'odoc' event
>
> Does anyone know if it is at all possible to determine the URL that a  
> file came from (if it came from the browser, and was passed off to  
> LaunchServices)??
>
> I know on UNIX-y platforms, you can slip a '%u' into the
> mailcap entry that describes the helper application, but I'm
> not sure if there is any notion of this via the LaunchServices API...

try implementing GURL instead of odoc:
	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ 
LaunchServicesReference/LSRReference/function_group_2.html

-bob
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