Hi dear guys!

This is what I'd like to do: I double click on a dlc file and the links are loaded into JDownloader. If JD is not running, it starts beforehand.

I'm running Linux Mint Isadora which is a basically a modified Lucid Lynx.

I associated the dlc file format with the command "jdownloader". So when I click on a dlc file, JDownloader starts up but doesn't load the links. If JD is running at that time, nothing happens.

So how do I do this? Every help is much appreciated.

[Jiaz]

what does your command line jdownloader do?

Originally Posted by Jiaz

what does your command line jdownloader do?

It starts JDownloader but doesn't load any links. When I double click a .dlc file I would like to load the links from the dlc into JDownloader.

Edit: My current way to load dlc links into JD, is to drag and drop the dlc file into JD. That's neither fast nor elegant.

[Jiaz]

can you show the script?
cause your script must pass the correct parameters too to load the dlc

Originally Posted by Jiaz

can you show the script?

I didn't write a script myself. The following shell script called "jdownloader" was placed in /usr/bin when I added your ppa (**External links are only visible to Support Staff****External links are only visible to Support Staff**).
This is the jdownloader command I was talking about earlier.

I think the answer to my question are the correct parameters you mentioned.

Thanks for your support until now, btw.

Below you'll find the content of the jdownloader shell script. I didn't change the script so I guess the code will be familar to you.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

if test -z "$JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY"; then
	# You can override this default by setting JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY
	JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY=~/.jdownloader
fi

LOG_FILE=${JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY}/jdownloader.log
JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx512m"
NUMBER_OF_UPDATE_MIRRORS=3

download_updater() {
	RANDOM_NUMBER=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -f1 -d" ")
	MIRROR=http://update$(expr ${RANDOM_NUMBER} % ${NUMBER_OF_UPDATE_MIRRORS}).jdownloader.org/

	rm -f jdupdate.jar
	echo "$0: Download jdupdate.jar from ${MIRROR}." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	wget --append-output=${LOG_FILE} ${MIRROR}/jdupdate.jar || zenity --error --text "The JDownloader updater could not be downloaded. Check your Internet connection and try again.\n\nThe error log can be found in\n${LOG_FILE}."

	rm -f jdupdate.jar.md5
	echo "$0: Download jdupdate.jar.md5 from ${MIRROR}." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	wget --append-output=${LOG_FILE} ${MIRROR}/jdupdate.jar.md5 || zenity --error --text "The JDownloader updater MD5 sum file could not be downloaded. Check your Internet connection and try again.\n\nThe error log can be found in\n${LOG_FILE}."

	ACTUAL_MD5SUM=$(md5sum jdupdate.jar | cut -f1 -d" ")
	TARGET_MD5SUM=$(cat jdupdate.jar.md5)
	if test "$ACTUAL_MD5SUM" != "$TARGET_MD5SUM"; then
		zenity --warning --text "The MD5 sum of the JDownloader updater mismatches. It is ${ACTUAL_MD5SUM}, but it should be ${TARGET_MD5SUM}. Either there was a download error, or one of the files (downloader or md5 sum file) is not up-to-date.\n\nThe log file can be found in\n${LOG_FILE}."
	fi
}

# determine command line parameters
while getopts 'u' OPTION; do
	case $OPTION in
	u)	UPDATE=1
		;;
	esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND - 1 ))

# create JDownloader directory
mkdir -p "${JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY}"
cd "${JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY}"

# clear log
> ${LOG_FILE}

# download updater, if it is missing (e.g. first run)
if test ! -f jdupdate.jar; then
	echo "$0: No installer/updater found in ${JDOWNLOADER_DIRECTORY}." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	download_updater
fi

# start update if requested
if test "$UPDATE" = "1"; then
	echo "$0: Starting updater by your request." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	exec java ${JAVA_OPTIONS} -jar jdupdate.jar "$0"
elif test -f JDownloader.jar; then
	echo "$0: Starting JDownloader." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	exec java ${JAVA_OPTIONS} -jar JDownloader.jar "$0"
else
	# run updater, if JDownloader.jar does not exist
	echo "$0: No valid JDownloader.jar exist. Starting updater." >> ${LOG_FILE}
	exec java ${JAVA_OPTIONS} -jar jdupdate.jar "$0"
fi

It would be quite nice if you or somebody else could tell me the necessary parameters or any other way to do it.

[Jiaz]

--add-containers filename
or
--add-container filename
or
--co filename
you need to modify the start line
exec java ${JAVA_OPTIONS} -jar JDownloader.jar "$0"
to add the above parameters in case a file is given as paramter.

Originally Posted by Jiaz

you need to modify the start line
exec java ${JAVA_OPTIONS} -jar JDownloader.jar "$0"
to add the above parameters in case a file is given as paramter.

How should the line look after I modified it?

[Jiaz]

im sorry, but im not a bash coder
i suggest to ask Benjamin Drung
h__ps://launchpad.net/~jd-team/+archive/jdownloader
as he wrote the script

Alright, I will do that.
When I know the answer, I'll post it here.

[Jiaz]

thanks

After mailing with Benjamin he was kind enough to implement the feature I requested. The changes have already been included in the PPA I was told by Benjamin.

So this is what I tested: Using the new script in Ubuntu 10.10 I associated the dlc-files with the command 'jdownloader -co'. Now I doubleclicked on a dlc container and voila: The links of the dlc were loaded into JDownloader. Exactly what I wished for.

Additionally in Firefox I associated the dlcs with 'jdownloader' which yielded the same satisfying results as described above.

I'm happy.

Thanks Jiaz and Benjamin!