Hi Chipp, After following the Creator/Type codes through all the versions of Mac OS for many years, it's the sort of thing you get used to. Apple invented the idea back in the dark ages, and now they are stuck with it, as least until OS 9 and Classic die the death ! I wrote a HC stack many years ago to adjust Creator/Type codes that had gone astray (for some reason), and I still use it today. There are files floating around on the web which give a complete list of all of these codes and their mother applications. I have a list which is never far from my side. I can reproduce at will, examples of files with perfectly good extensions, that when double-clicked with the Hypercard application active, come up with the message "Stack is invalid" (or something like that !). I have to close Hypercard to be able to double-click the file !
You may be surprised to know that I have had several instances where Revolution saved my stack under the name "Stackname.rev", and a double-click wouldn't open it . Just looking at the file icon tells you that something is wrong. I launch Revolution and execute "Open", and things go back to normal. Unfortunately, it's not "reproducible" (although I think it is because I have a wait in my closeStack handler, and I sometimes quit revolution with cmd/Q when my stack is still open). There are some things you just have to live with (Sigh !) -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
From: Chipp Walters Let me get this right. You all are saying Macs _CAN'T LAUNCH A FILE BASED UPON EXTENSION_ ?
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