[REBOL] Re: Can't double-click rebol scripts on iMac
From: carl:cybercraft at: 30-Aug-2002 11:19
On 30-Aug-02, Joel Neely wrote:
> Hi, Carl,
> There are two answers to your question:
> 1) TECHNICALLY: No, you can simply set the creator/type codes
> within your application's resource bundle. When it creates
> files, their creator/type can be set to whatever you wish. When
> your application is dropped into the file system the desktop
> database will be updated based on information in your app's
> resource fork.
But REBOL doesn't create the files - Joe ABC did on the other side of
the planet using a text-editor on OS XYZ. Is there no way to just
select a text-file and give it a non-text creator/type so its
application can be whatever you want?
> 2) POLITICALLY/CONVENTIONALLY: It is considered good manners to
> coordinate the creator/type codes you want to use. Otherwise
> you get the same sort of nonsense that we see in Visual CP/M, where
> selection of three-letter "extensions" is a free-for-all and it is
> quite common for a newly-installed app to grab ownership of types
> that you've been using with a previously-installed app (or for an
> OS upgrade to grab ownership of types formerly used by applications
> that m*cr*s*ft wants to put out of business.
Maybe all true. But why is it that my PC-using friends don't seem to
have had any trouble setting up Windows to launch REBOL scripts with
just a click on the scripts' icons while the Mac user with his
better
OS can't?
--
Carl Read
