[digiKam-users] DIgikam 7.1 on Mac OS can images be opened with external editor?

[robert lindsay]

OK I got this this information from a friend that is a mac developer.
Hopefully this will help you.



On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:34 AM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> In fact yes and not. You can use open with the default macOS
> application from the Item menu. It will call Finder to open the
> default application registered in macOS to open this kind of image.
>
> For the Open With... feature, I haven't yet found the right code
> (osascript by preference, or Objective C) to call Finder and to show
> the open with dialog from macOS.
>
> Example of osascript in digiKam to open Finder and select current
> items from album thumbnails view :
>
>
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/core/libs/threadimageio/engine/dfileoperations.cpp#L301
>
> All help is welcome.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le jeu. 28 janv. 2021 à 23:34, robert lindsay
> <robert.lindsay at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > I've tried right clicking on the image but the only option is "open"
> which brings up the internal editor. I'd Ideally like to have it be able to
> open Affinity or Dx0
> >
> >
>
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