Hi Richard, Interesting, didn’t know that. Educating users is, or will be, no mean task, though.
Thanks for sharing, Gregory On Mon, Sep 19, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Gregory Lypny wrote: > >> Richard, I?m afraid that changing the extension does not cause the type to >> change. > > It's worse than you think: file types have no meaning anymore in OS X. > > In versions prior to Snow Leopard they did, but they were deprecated in > Snow Leopard and will eventually be gone from the system entirely. > > Instead, the way forward is fully dependent on the file name extension. > > One of the byproducts of the loss of file type and creator codes is that > we no longer have a means of binding a file to a particular app without > adjusting the "Open With..." settings in the Finder's Get Info window. > If you choose a reasonably unique file type extension (e.g. ".livecode") > you have better chances of it launching the app you want, but for more > generic types it's anyone's guess as to what will happen. > > Given the ambiguity inherent in the new paradigm with regard to which > app will be launched when a document is double-clicked, for generic > types like "txt" and "csv" the best move is to educate users to open a > file from within their application. > > -- > Richard Gaskin _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
