Re: OS X native RR apps listed as "Classic"

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 07:42  AM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:

Since I've been getting a lot of inquiries as to why my OS X native RR apps are designated as "Classic" in their "Get Info" Finder windows, I'd like to know whether this will be "fixed" in the next version of RR, or whether someone could write an application (in RR?) that might adjust the "plist" or whatever is needed to correct this inaccuracy. Does the problem have to do with the file format of the carbon binary (CFM/PEF vs. Dyld/Mach-O)?
Thanks, Kurt

I noticed this as well and since I'm familiar with OS X app bundles, I created one and plunked my Revolution binary into the bundle. I created the bundle with Project Builder, but you could do it by hand instead. Using a bundle gives one complete control over how the app appears to the user including the icon and get-info data. If you want, I can mail you the app bundle and Project Builder .pbproj file. This may become a non-issue if Rev gets this completely fixed for v2.0.

It's just a Folder with this structure. The .app suffix is important.

# ls -R FacilityCalculator.app

FacilityCalculator.app/Contents:
Info.plist PkgInfo pbdevelopment.plist
MacOS/ Resources/

FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/MacOS:
FacilityCalculator data/

FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/MacOS/data:
UserData.rev

FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/Resources:
English.lproj/ nps.icns

FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj:
InfoPlist.strings

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FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/MacOS/FacilityCalculator is my Rev binary.
FacilityCalculator.app/Contents/MacOS/data/UserData.rev is a supporting Rev stack.
The .plist and PkgInfo files are short XML property lists.

nps.icns is an icons file created with IconComposer.app, which comes with the OS X developer tools. (you just run it and drag-n-drop four TIFFs or PNGs of the right size onto the app's image wells, then save)

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
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