Add double clicking of sws files for Mac app

[gvol]

With #8473 we have the necessary support for uploading files. This allows the Mac app to support double clicking of sws files. Also able to be opened are txt and zip files.

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Apply attachment: trac_11026-extcode.patch, attachment: trac_11026-fix-parse-error.patch and attachment: trac_11026-warnings.patch to the extcode repository. Also apply attachment: trac_11026-plist-strings.patch to the scripts repository.

CC: @kcrisman @jhpalmieri

Component: user interface

Keywords: mac app

Author: Ivan Andrus

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Kirchner, John Palmieri

Merged: sage-5.8.beta0

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/11026

[kcrisman]

comment:2

I think the patch already exists, right? You could just add it and mark 'needs review'.

[kcrisman]

comment:5

This would eventually need also to add html (#10652) and other file types as possible uploads, but I think that those could be additional enhancements to the Mac app.

I have to admit that some of the stuff in designable.nib I will never understand. I see the "new option to automatically start the server when a sws file is opened" from #8473, but some of the things like "IBConnectionRecord" and the mysterious numbers everywhere I can only judge by their effects. I am impressed by all the work bringing the double-click not just to the browser but to the mini-browser you built.

I'll be testing this shortly.

[kcrisman]

comment:6

I get a weird error, perhaps related to the problems with browsers at #8473, with this:

The resource /upload_worksheet?url=file://localhost/Users/student/Desktop/Tests.sws cannot be found.

Notice the file://localhost/Users rather than file:///Users which we get at #8473.

[kcrisman]

comment:7

From #8473:

The Mac app has a new option to automatically start the server when a sws file is opened. I'm not sure anyone would ever want to turn this off, so I can remove it if it's not useful.

But it does work as advertised. I can imagine one wanting to avoid 'accidentally' starting the server, so let's keep it.

The rest seems to work as it's supposed to, modulo the issues mentioned at #8473.

[kcrisman]

comment:8

Here's a couple more interesting details.

• Changing the default browser to FF, it still worked! Even if the server was started.
• BUT if the app was completely turned off, then I got the message about the following not being found - no surprise, as port 0 probably is not open!

http://localhost:0/upload_worksheet?url=file://localhost/Users/karl-dietercrisman/Desktop/Test.sws

That is certainly some kind of residue from #8473, with somehow the initial port 0 not being changed soon enough or something. You could follow up there if it makes more sense.

[kcrisman]

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman

[kcrisman]

comment:9

Separately, I just experienced the phenomenon of closing the app turning off a different Sage server session! At least that's what it seemed like.