The file Type and Creator for Rebol View does not appear to be registered with Apple. I have written many Rebol View scripts for OS9.x and Windows, but have never been able to "Double Click" on any Rebol script to activate it. (This is on any non OS/X). I have always used the rebol desktop to initiate a rebol script on a Mac. This is one of the reasons I have used Applescript in many instances because, most Mac users only know how to "Double Click". If anyone knows of an existing file Type and Creator for non-OS/X, life would be much simpler. (Yes Rebol is far more efficient than Applescript!)
Regards, Albert Geluk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Can't double-click rebol scripts on iMac > Hi, Gabriele, > > Gabriele Santilli wrote: > > > > JN> Mac files are usually exchanged across the 'Net using a tool > > JN> such as Stuffit, which creates a single data file containing > > JN> all of the necessary components: > > > > And, of course, before Stuffit there was BinHex... > > > > > So it's not a big deal, as long as you --- the developer --- > > can tell MacOS that that file should be opened by REBOL and > > not by your editor. What's the problem for the user? > > > > I assume your talking about the scenario where a "developer" writes > a script and gives it to a "user" who is expected to double-click > on it to run as needed but not expected to modify the content of > the script file. > > I'm running OS/X on my iBook, so I don't have ready access to try > an experiment on older (non-X) MacOS versions. The key questions > would be: > > 1) What is the creator/application code for REBOL/Core? > > 2) Is there a different creator/application code for /View? > > 3) If someone uses a utility to change the creator code for a > file of type "TEXT" from whatever editor created it to the > creator code for /Core or /View, will REBOL (either version) > know to DO that file once launched? > > 4) If REBOL (either /View or /Core) creates a file, what creator > and type codes will the directory contain for that file? > > If anyone has ready access to a non-X MacOS with a utility such > as BBEdit (which can manipulate creator/type codes), the above > could be answered fairly quickly. > > If the answer to (3) is "Yes", and the answer to (4) is that the > creator is set to the appropriate version of REBOL and the type > is left as something else that REBOL will accept per question (3) > then a REBOL one-liner could be written to > > a) read a specified text file (assumed to be a script) > b) write it to another name (implicitly marking it with REBOL > as the creator) > > and the output would cause REBOL to launch and run when double- > clicked. > > Needless to say, all of this is speculative, contingent, and > disclaimered six ways from Sunday... ;-) > > -jn- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
