[comp.sys.apple] Finder/Application interface

TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (10/09/88)

Does anyone know if the following is possible -- I'd like to be able to
use the finder to select several files and directories (of different
kinds) at once and then launch (double click) an S16 application that is
passed the pathnames of the selected files and directories.  I know that
if you select several files all belonging to the same application and
then double click (open) them their application gets launched
automatically and they all get passed to it through the MessageCenter.
That doesn't seem to happen if you select the files and then attempt to
select an application -- the files all get deselected first (even if you
hold down the shift key) and are not passed to the application.  Would
it work if the application were written and installed as an NDA?  (I'd
be writing the application in TML Pascal, but don't even want to start
digging in until it even seems possible; I'd hate to set up all the
scaffolding it takes to interact even a little with ProDos & the Toolbox
to find there is a dead end.)

TMPLee@Dockmaster.arpa