Steve, Arno, Thank you very much for the leads. I'll see what I can come up with.
Jean-Christophe On 9 juin 2011, at 10:50, [email protected] wrote: > On 2011-06-08 19:39 , Arno Hautala wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 21:22, Jean-Christophe Helary >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm thinking of associating files with an arbitrary extension to a >>> "standard" shell script so that when the file is double-clicked it >>> automatically launches the script and is used as its argument. >>> >>> Is there a relatively trivial way to do that ? > > no > >> You may be able to do this by wrapping your script with something like >> Platypus. >> Or perhaps an AppleScript. >> >> I think associating a file type (or extension) requires a bundle >> identifier. I'm not sure that Platypus or an AppleScript provides >> this. > > i understand that Platypus can do this; AppleSripts saved as an application > bundle need some manipulation -- here's some info: > > <http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/bundletools/index.html> > > the key for this to work is that your resulting script wrapper must > successfully handle the open event and receive the file(s) you have > double-clicked, and pass those files as arguments to the shell script Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
