austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) (11/27/90)
Here's an idea for a nice little utility program for the Mac which I haven't seen done yet. I'd like a *small* utility program in pascal or c. It would have the creator type set to the same as say WriteNow or MacWrite, so that if I double-clicked on a document created by the said word processor, this utility pgm would be launched. The pgm would do nothing except to launch the word processing application I *do* use, say Microsoft Word, passing the information about the file I double clicked on to MS Word. This way, you might have a couple of copies of this utility somewhere on your hard disk, one with the creator type set to WriteNow, another copy's creator type set to MacWrite, etc. Double-clicking on text files in either form would start MS-Word with that file open. ----------------- Alternatively, an INIT which maps the creator types of documents that you double-click on to what you want. ie: double click on document with creator type MACA (MacWrite) and Microsoft Word is launched (creator type MSWD). ----------------- Anybody with some code to accomplish such a thing? Please email, and I will summarize the responses received, if there is some interest in this type of thing. Thanks, Alvin ___________________________________________________________________________ Alvin Austin Email: austin@skorpio.USask.Ca Department of Computational Science (Mail) Room 1C101 Engineering Building Office: Room 145.1 Arts Building University of Saskatchewan Telephone: (306) 966-4895 Saskatoon, Sask. CANADA S7N 0W0 FAX: (306) 966-8709 ___________________________________________________________________________
gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) (11/27/90)
In article <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: >Here's an idea for a nice little utility program for the Mac >which I haven't seen done yet. > >I'd like a *small* utility program in pascal or c. It would >have the creator type set to the same as say WriteNow or MacWrite, >so that if I double-clicked on a document created by the said >word processor, this utility pgm would be launched. > >The pgm would do nothing except to launch the word processing >application I *do* use, say Microsoft Word, passing the information >about the file I double clicked on to MS Word. This already exists as a commercial product - HandOff II. Unfortunately, it's fallen prey to the the "kitchen sink" syndrome and now does a number of other things besides just re-map creator types. <sigh> I know that there also exist other commercial products which can do what you request, and I even think that some of the shareware program-launch utilities can do this. But, I'm not certain. HandOff II is the only product that I am -certain- does what you request. Who makes it? Not sure... 5th Generation? -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "This is Serious. He is Lost. The Ohio State University ACS-FM-OCES | We must begin the Search at once." gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.ed | -Rabbit, from gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + "The House at Pooh Corner"
aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) (11/28/90)
In article <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes:
I'd like a *small* utility program in pascal or c. It would
have the creator type set to the same as say WriteNow or MacWrite,
so that if I double-clicked on a document created by the said
word processor, this utility pgm would be launched.
Alternatively, an INIT which maps the creator types of documents
that you double-click on to what you want. ie: double click on
document with creator type MACA (MacWrite) and Microsoft Word is
launched (creator type MSWD).
Well, for the first you could try a little program called
MacWrite->MacWriteII which I edited to run MS Word instead. There are
also versions for other word processors, and it does exactly what you
want. I've seen a few different versions, but if you can't find it
let me know and I'll bin-hex and e-mail docs & the package (if I can
find it on my disks!)
As far as the second goes, there are three items that I can think of
offhand which do it. The first is called HandOff II (the
top-of-the-line) which does this, as well as program-launching in
general (as with OnCue). One great feature of HOII is that it will
automatically launch a file with the application (simulating your
double-clicking a document each time you open the application.)
Another alternative is HandOff 1.2 or something, which does the
cross-launching and I don't really know what else.
A shareware alternative (which I have not used but looked at some time
ago) is called CrossLaunch, and is available from Sumex-aim via
anonymous FTP. Can't tell you much about it, though. It is billed as
suiting your purpose, though. Personally, I use QKII to open the
program I want to use and then use the open menu to get back to the
file. Not as easy, but no additional cost, either.
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System 7.0 has a feature for aliasing files and applications, which will do you want. Until then a commercial program called Hand Off, available for all mail order firms, runs an INIT which patches the finder so any application can launche(i mean open) any other applications documents.
leburg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Brian Pierson) (12/03/90)
In article <1990Nov27.133930.28953@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: >In article <1990Nov26.191448.3319@herald.usask.ca> austin@skorpio.USask.CA (Alvin Austin) writes: >>Here's an idea for a nice little utility program for the Mac >>which I haven't seen done yet. >> > This already exists as a commercial product - HandOff II. > > > Who makes it? Not sure... 5th Generation? Nice init use it all the time. Maker - Software Innovations PO Box 811 Allen Texas 75002 (214) 727-2329 Brian Pierson