Re: another exec()-ish question

Michael, I'm sorry you thought my answer was snobbish... I didn't mean for it to sound that way. I just gave you the best answer I could think of at the time. If that didn't work for you, let me know (off the mailing list) and I'll try to help you some more... But Sebastian is right, this list gets a LOT of questions that are totally unrelated to PHP-GTK. I realize that it's quite difficult for newbies to get started in PHP-GTK, especially for people who haven't programmed GTK applications in C (or C++, or whatever your favorite language binding happens to be...) If I were to write a thoughtful answer to every non-PHP-GTK question I receive, it would probably take me an extra half-hour to an hour a day... and I don't have that kind of extra time. I'm sorry. I can only do what's within my abilities to do. Hope that helps you understand why we seem so snobbish... Jared On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 03:35, Michael Dransfield wrote: > sorry - but the > opening-different-file-types-and-their-associated-viewer-from-any-programming language > newsgroup didnt respond very quickly... > > do you not think that it would be useful for the archives should anyone > who is learning in the future might find it? > > We are not all uber-geeks, born knowing C. > > Im sorry to fill your inboxes with questions YOU already know the answer > to, but for this language to take off, you are going to need people to > develop using the program to prove its effectiveness. These people are > not going to be C++'ers - they are going to be people who know php (and > possibly some program like VB or Delphi). > > You all need to try to be less spikey when responding to newbies > questions, yes we know a lot of you actually wrote this language. > > The reason PHP was so successful, was its large community, ease of use > and great documentation, which meant the language was very easy to pick > up and use, even for complete beginners. > > If you lot continue to look down your noses at newbies, PHP-GTK will > just die as some kind of novelty, not become the alternative to VB, > Delphi and Klyx, which I think it can. > > Just my grumpy morning 2 cents worth. > > > > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:13, Sebastian wrote: > > Am Montag, 18. März 2002 18:00 schrieb Michael Dransfield: > > > does anyone know how to open the default application for an application > > > type. > > > > > > I potentially need to open Word, PDF and maybe excel spreadsheets. > > > Cross-platform. > > > > > > I was going to just use a browser to open the file and hope it will > > > handle the filetype correctly. Is there another way? (other than > > > storing the location to every viewer for every filetype) > > > > This isn't really a phpGtk-related question. > > > > -- > > MfG, > > Sebastian. > > > > -- > > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >