Robert Brenstein wrote: >> Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'd much rather see Tuviah and all other Mac developers spend their time >>> making cool features that really show off what OS X has to offer rather than >>> spending time reinventing forgotten wheels. >> >> I second this ;-) >> > > Well, I feel I should oppose. Being able to open selected files by us > and users of our programs is an important feature. Even under Classic > OS, the stdfile proc allowed to insert custom filtering since > standard was often not enough. Yes, Apple could possibly support both > type and suffix as filter options in system, but Revolution still > needs to provide a syntax for to pass the specification providing > functionality requested by Rev users (cf. discussion of bug 605). In > other words, much of the work has to be done anyway. At this level, I > don't care whether Rev uses procs supplied by Apple or make their > own. This is between them an Apple (or Microsoft or else).
I agree with both: While my dream of Apple taking care of backward compatibility issues they introduce would be more beneficial for the Mac community as a whole, it is just that, a dream. A suboptimal solution that exists is far superior to an optimal ideal that doesn't. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
