By "mousing on", I refer to the action of double-clicking a document so as to cause an an appropriate application to launch and deal with that document.

The desired actions are: Double-click Able ==> Alice launches and deals with Able; double-click Bravo ==> Bob launches and deals with Bravo. Dragging Bravo onto Alice or Able onto Bob should result in no launch of either.

The goal is an end-to-end test of the double-click/launch/deal-with process. There are matters of initialization and synchronization of the various threads of my app, hence I intend to test all flavors of document-opens-on-launch frequently, to be sure I have not messed things up.

I thank the group for advice, I think I am on top of this one for the moment.

--  Jay Reynolds Freeman
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On Oct 25, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

Drag the binary file of interest onto the given version of "MyApp". You don't have to rely on Finder matching them up. You can do it yourself, and IIRC the same sequence of actions/events results as if the app were started by double-clicking the data file in Finder. I've done tests like this myself and never seen a difficulty.

Or I may still be misunderstanding what you're trying to do. It might clarify things if you called the two versions of your app Alice and Bob, and two versions of the file Able and Bravo. So Alice can get Able or Bravo files, Bob can get Able or Bravo files, and tell us what you want to happen (or don't want to happen).

Finally, I'm unsure of exactly what you mean in your original post when you use the word "mouse" as a verb, as in "If I mouse on ...". Do you mean a hover, a single-click, a double-click, a drag-n-drop, or a contextual-click (right or ctrl click)? All of these gestures involve the mouse, but each one is a distinct gesture with a distinct meaning.

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