Interesting... Being a less biased observer than most, I'm always interested to hear responses from both sides of "the great debate". You mentioned in an earlier post, "For X, I believe you set a creator/filetype flag in a plist for your program bundle." Can this be done with the same version of ResEdit as OS9?
Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:31 PM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> installing my application and associating files with it > On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: > > > The Mac's way of doing things has always seemed a little like "Big > > Brother" > > to me. The Mac wants to keep control of everything and not let the > > user > > control stuff himself. > > Umm, er, I'm going to sit on my hands rather then reply to that, though > I will make intimations about the invidious nature of the "registry", > how Win insists on icon view as default even when you've just > *specified* you want lists, and of course the fact that if you simply > move a program from one installed location to another folder all of a > sudden it doesn't work any more. > > > Because here we have PCs and Macs networked together > > with Linux servers, sometimes files will lose their resource forks > > after > > being copied back and forth, and then they no longer have any file > > associations on the Macs! That's one of the major things I don't like > > about > > the MacOS . There's no easy way to restore file associations. > > Sure there is. All the later pre-X systems shipped with a control panel > that let you set up associations easily. X makes it even simpler with > the "get info" window, letting you set the app to open a given file > with quite readily. > > It is true that Macs tend to lock out the deeper functions from > *novice* users, and this is likely one reason they tend to not roll > over as often, but there are literally stacks of tools out there you > can get that will let you get in and do whatever your heart desires. > The idea is to keep the OS less breakable than others, which it most > certainly is, though a dedicated user can find a way to break almost > anything. ;) > > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
