Can't work custom tools on Zim Desktop

Question

I can't figure how to work with custom tools in Zim Desktop

I'm on windows10 Zim Desktop portable edition 0.65 Python 2.7 or 3.6, I've tried both

Every time I get this messagge:

%1 non è un programma win32 valido

thats for: this isn't a win32 valid program

Someone can help me?

Answer 1

I'm on Win10. I have the following script in folder c:/scratch and it's called temp.py. As you can see, it's sole job is to attempt to open the URL that's passed to it via its single command line parameter.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import webbrowser
    from sys import argv
    webbrowser.open(argv[1])

As instructed in the Zim docs, I open the Tools|Custom Tools dialogue box, and click on the 'plus' icon, then fill in the details as shown here.

Now I can go back to a Zim page with a URL like this one,

highlight the URL, then choose Launch highlighted URL from the Tools menu and presto, that page loads in my browser.

That's the basic idea anyway.