On Jun 21, 2006, at 11:04 AM, John Kubie wrote:
I would like to have a double-clickable document that will launch
my application and be opened.
The difficulty is that my 'documents' are folders containing
images, text files, etc.
The solution (for OS X) seems to be making the document folders
into packages (bundles) that have an extension linked to the
application.
My questions:
1. what is needed to make a folder a bundle? A bundle associated
with a particular application?
I've read some of Apple's documentation, and, in my first attempt
at modifying the info.plist in the application and giving a
matching extension to the folder, nothing happened to the folder;
it stayed a folder. I'm assuming that the extension must be
registered by the finder, but I don't know when the finder reads
the info.plist. Also, I'm probably doing other stuff wrong.
I think that your application needs to register the document bundle
type. If you open TextEdit's Info.plist file you'll see stuff like
the following.
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>rtfd</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>rtfd.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>NSRTFDPboardType</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Editor</string>
<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForType</key>
<true/>
<key>LSTypeIsPackage</key>
<true/>
</dict>
This is the sort of thing you'll need to add to your application's
Info.plist file. REALbasic does not provide a way to do this, so
you'll need to edit Info.plist yourself. I suggest creating an
Info.plist file. Then each time you compile, replace the file
created by Rb with a copy of your file.
Charles Yeomans
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