Re: help launching files in nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:31, Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm customizing nautilus and I need to launch an app to read a file at
> some point.
> 
> I tried to use nautilus_launch_show_file, calling
> nautilus_file_get_existing then using its return as parameter for
> nautilus_launch_show_file, but nautilus segfaults. I've spent quite a
> while trying to figure this out and I'm stumped.

nautilus_file_get_existing can return NULL if the NautilusFile isn't
loaded atm. Thats what "existing" means. Maybe thats the problem.

Maybe you want to use fm_directory_view_activate_file? That depends on
what you are trying to do.

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