philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/17/91)
In System 7, is there any way of pursuading an application to take over if the original creator isn't present, the way Teachtext is offered for TEXT documents? Can this only be done by hacking with ResEdit, or is there some higher-level interface? I couldn't find anything in the System 7 manuals. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) (05/19/91)
In article <1991May16.222526.2150@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: > > In System 7, is there any way of pursuading an application > to take over if the original creator isn't present, the > way Teachtext is offered for TEXT documents? Can Yes, this is controlled by a resource in the Finder. Since it's a pain to edit the Finder (you have to make a copy), I wrote a system extension called Understudy that changes this itself. I've recently made a couple of changes to the program, and I will post the new version in a couple of days. Unfortunately, you still have to customize the program with ResEdit. But if anyone is interested in doing a Control Panel front-end, let me know.