ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) (06/08/89)
Here is a something which I feel ought to be changed, at little cost, in the next version of hypercard: When a text file is created using open file in hypercard, the text file's creator is set to MACA (MacWrite). Seeing as a lot of us now use MacWriteII (or other things!), it would be helpful if it were possible in some way to choose the creator of the file to be MWII etc instead of MACA. Best would be some way of doing it using hypertalk, 2nd best would be for the creator string to be in a resource which could be resedited, and least good of all is the current dodgy idea where I patched the code resources of HyperCard directly. Come on, you guys at Apple, I thought this was the type of thing resources were supposed to be about - to aloow customisation :-) Seriously, I'd be happy if people at Apple who read this group could give this modest wish consideration. Ralph
liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (06/10/89)
> /* Written 4:06 am Jun 8, 1989 by ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk in zaphod:comp.sys.mac.hypercard */ > Best would be some way of doing it using hypertalk, 2nd best would be for > the creator string to be in a resource which could be resedited, and least > good of all is the current dodgy idea where I patched the code resources of > HyperCard directly. I would prefer that any creator type may be associated with any other creator. So no programs would have to be changed, hundreds of documents would not have to have their creator changed, etc. Just change the association in one place between, for example, a MacWrite creator and WORD, or TEXT and TeachText etc. The Finder would have to be changed to support this feature. Perhaps someone could write an INIT to do the job though. Dan LaLiberte National Center for Supercomputing Applications liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu
holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) (06/15/89)
In article <800001@zaphod> liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu writes: > >> /* Written 4:06 am Jun 8, 1989 by ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk in zaphod:comp.sys.mac.hypercard */ >> Best would be some way of doing it using hypertalk, 2nd best would be for >> the creator string to be in a resource which could be resedited, and least >> good of all is the current dodgy idea where I patched the code resources of >> HyperCard directly. > >I would prefer that any creator type may be associated with any other >creator. So no programs would have to be changed, hundreds of documents >would not have to have their creator changed, etc. Just change the >association in one place between, for example, a MacWrite creator and >WORD, or TEXT and TeachText etc. > >The Finder would have to be changed to support this feature. Perhaps >someone could write an INIT to do the job though. It just so happens that an INIT that does this will soon be released. It's currently in beta testing and the marketing plan is not yet definite. Let me tell you a little bit about how it works. Whenever you try to open a document from the Finder and the Finder can't find the application that created the document, you will be given the opportunity to choose a substitute application. You can also set it so future encounters with documents created by the same application will automatically open the substitute. Another feature is that you can map generic documents by file-name extension. In other words, ".txt" files could be treated as MacWrite documents, ".wks" as Excel and so on. It's not ready for an official announcement yet, but, if you'll send me your mailing address, I'll send you information as soon as it's available. Fred Hollander Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc. hollander@ti.com The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.