David Doria wrote:

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You will need to create an extension for that. Other option would be to use one page for each file, and embed with {{#tag:source|lang="cpp"|{{/RandomNumbers.cxx}} }}, offering the download link going to acion=raw.

This sounds like it will do exactly what I'm looking for! I'm having a bit of trouble though:

I'm trying to display these two pages: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLin... http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLin...

from this page: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLin...

Taking only the Cxx as an example, I tried to display the page like this:

{{#tag:source|lang="cpp"|{{VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx}} }}

but I get an error "Invalid language", even though I know 'cpp' is definitely a supported language.

Move the lang to the end {{#tag:source|{{VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx}}|lang=cpp}}

I then tried to make the download link like this:

[[VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx?action=raw | Download Cxx file]]

but the link is red, so I'm assuming I can't put the action=raw in the local link like that?

[{{fullurl:VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx|action=raw}} Download Cxx file]

David Doria wrote:

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Move the lang to the end {{#tag:source|{{VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx}}|lang=cpp}}

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[{{fullurl:VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx|action=raw}} Download Cxx file]

Getting very close!

1. This part is working:

[{{fullurl:VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx|action=raw}} Download Cxx file]

However, when I click the link it right away downloads the file as 'index.php'. Is there a way to set the default name of the file to the name of the page, or another specified file name?

I don't think so. It's not the right mime either.

2. With this:

{{#tag:source|{{VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx}}|lang="cpp"}}

I see:

[[:Template:VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLineCxx]]

displayed (you can see it here: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/SimpleOperations/DistancePointToLin... ), where it is supposed to display the text from DistancePointToLineCxx. One last tweak :) ?

Yes, add : after the {{ so it looks up the page in the main namespace instead of the template one.

David Doria wrote:

Excellent, it is working! Thank you very much.

What did you mean by: "It's not the right mime either." ?

David

It will be served with a content-type of text/x-wiki instead of the mime of whatever programming language the page contains.