Sure, a system call out would be nicest way to register a handler. Unfortunately, registering custom URI schemes seems to be completely different on every platform, as well as how they receive an activation event. OS X uses a plist, Windows a registry entry, for Linux depends on the distro. So I went for a minimal solution. But it should be doable to provide a platform-aware package that takes case of the installation.

On 12 Oct 2017, at 09:34, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:

Ok, I see. Building a native app and interfacing it from pharo is the most reliable version. I was just thinking that having a system call out it might be easier to make it cross-platform. I would be interested to have that available for all platforms.

Norbert

Am 12.10.2017 um 09:20 schrieb Manuel Leuenberger <leuenberger@inf.unibe.ch>:

That's what I did. Only I used a native Objective-C app, as it provides a simple API to register to the events and will even be started if it's not running yet.

Am 12.10.2017 08:50 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name>:
I think all you need is to do a system call out to the OS in order to register your scheme. For Mac OS it would be sonething like



And then you can see if it is what you want. Custom handlers associate a url scheme to an application binary. I���m not sure you can use an image with it. So I would register a shell script and handle the adoption in the script.

Does that help?

Norbert

Am 10.10.2017 um 21:06 schrieb Manuel Leuenberger <leuenberger@inf.unibe.ch>:

Hi,

Is there any support from the VM/Application package to add custom URI schemes to listen to from within Pharo? I would like to have a hyperlink like ���pharo://send?data=fancypants��� in an arbitrary document that, when clicked, switches to Pharo and calls a hook I can register. Could someone give me a hint how to achieve that, or do I have to build a little bridge application that handles the scheme registration and talks with Pharo through another channel? Currently, I only need this for OS X.

Cheers,
Manuel