dbert@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) (02/27/91)
I have a question for all you programmers which I *think* may relate to ResEdit, but I'm not certain. What I want to know is, how can one determine the actions taken by a "startup" document (I'll call it this for want of a better/standard term to call it -- what I'm referring to is a document which, when double-clicked upon, opens a related application. An example of what I mean would be when you double-click on a MacWrite document you open the MacWrite application) What I'm trying to determine is if there is any way to use ResEdit (or some other application) and look at the startup document and locate the sections where the related application is opened. Also I'd like to know how to make this action occur myself, but I'd bet information like that would be available in Inside Macintosh (which I, as a new Mac owner, haven't yet gotten around to purchasing :) ) or some other reference. Mainly though I'd just be really happy if someone could tell me how to locate the aforementioned sections of a startup document (not specific to any one application, but in a general sense) Since this is probably not of general interest it would probably be better if you e-mailed me. Thank you to anyone who can take the time to help me out in this matter. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Doug Siebert dbert@albert.ai.mit.edu MBA Student (2nd year) The University of Iowa
stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) (02/28/91)
dbert@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) writes: >[...] >What I'm trying to determine is if there is any way to use ResEdit (or some >other application) and look at [an app's] document and locate the sections >where the related application is opened. Also I'd like to know how to make >this action occur myself, but I'd bet information like that would be >available in Inside Macintosh (which I, as a new Mac owner, haven't yet >gotten around to purchasing :) ) or some other reference. Mainly though >I'd just be really happy if someone could tell me how to locate the >aforementioned sections of a startup document (not specific to any one >application, but in a general sense) Since this is probably not of general >interest it would probably be better if you e-mailed me. Thank you to >anyone who can take the time to help me out in this matter. An application's document just contains relevant data, i.e, text in a word processing document or graphics in a paint or drawing program. It has no knowledge of how to open the application. Rather, the process is the other way around: the application knows how to open and interpret the document. So how does the application get started up when you click on one (or more) of its documents? The Finder (usually) builds a list of documents that are to be opened, figures out which application they belong to (by checking the document's creator info), and opens the application(s). The application can then ask if there are any documents to be opened when it starts up and peruse that list seeing if any are for it. It then opens the documents as if "Open..." had been selected. The specifics on how this works can be found in the Segment Loader chapter of Inside Mac volume II. steve -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Christensen Never hit a man with glasses. stevec@apple.com Hit him with a baseball bat.
thomps@inmet.inmet.com (03/07/91)
If I may piggyback on this question - where can I look to find out how to make a "Startup" file for an application? In UNIX land, this would just be a link (ln). If, for example, I have a Lightspeed C (3.0) application that lives in a development folder, how can I link to this with a "Startup" file in different folders where I want to use it? It really wastes disk space copying the application everywhere I want to use it. Thanks, -JohnT.
d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (03/08/91)
JohnT says:
In UNIX land, this would just be a link (ln). If, for example,
I have a Lightspeed C (3.0) application that lives in a
development folder, how can I link to this with a "Startup"
file in different folders where I want to use it? It really
wastes disk space copying the application everywhere I want to
use it.
System 7 will include "aliases" that point to other files, very much
symbolic links. You'll also have the possibility of putting aliases
in the menu.
As regards startup files, you could create an empty document with
your application's signature as creator. When you double-click it,
your application gets launched (and, presumably, opens the empty
document...)
Happy hacking,
h+@nada.kth.se
Jon W{tte
"The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which
seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want
them to do." -- Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer