On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:42 PM, John McKernon wrote:
It also seems logical that the OS would go fishing for apps at the
highest levels first and dig its way down through folders layer by
layer (or maybe an alphabetical search in the first place?) until
finally either finding what it wants or else runs out of places to
look.
Actually, The Mac OS looks for the most up to date version of the
application. If there are two different copies of the same
application, whichever one has the higher version number is the one
that OSX will normally open. This is one of the things that makes
the Mac so user friendly.
I looked into the plist for RB2006r1, and found that it's version
strings don't comply with the Apple standards, so my guess is that
OSX can't tell what version it is.
Apple will also launch the program which is associated with the
document. "Get Info" on the project file, and see which application
is associated with it... if it is not REALbasic 2006, then you can
set it and then click the "Change All..." button to fix all project
documents.
The other thing I recommend is to use the OS "Archive" feature or use
StuffIt to compress the older REALbasic applications that you no
longer use, but would like to keep "just in case". A compressed
application is unable to launch and would temporarily fix this problem.
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