okay, well don't be so lazy. i've got an app i'm porting to OSX,
not writing for OSX. this app has config files, already, a vast
plethora of them in fact, which will be useful for this app when it
runs on OSX. must i convert all of those .xml files to Apples prefs
format, just to get around the hijack of argv?
Who is suggesting that? Just have an option in the preference window
of your application to specify a config file. And you can still pipe
all your preferences into your command line argument handler.
The way Mac
users expect an application to work. Not some obscure way that none
of them will have any idea about.
ermm.. which Mac users are you talking about, the ones buying Mac
apps, or the ones who have moved to OSX from Unix and still want to
run the Unix apps they expect to be able to run, smoothly, just like
the good ol' (irix) days?
You seem to be contradicting yourself here. You won't use a terminal
command because it is too difficult and yet you say you're targeting
people moving from Unix to OS X.
And editing an info.plist file is infinitely more difficult for a
user to accomplish than it is for you to simply add a checkmark in
your preference dialog.
well, fortunately, editing a .plist is somewhat akin to editing a
Windows shortcut, and pretty much everyone i know, who will run the
apps i'm porting from Unix->OSX, will have no problems with that.
if there is time to over-Apple'ify the port codebase, maybe i will
add a prefpane, a startup items link, an argv list parser Dashboard
widget, an RSS screensaver feed reading my xml files, etc.
No, editing a plist is nothing like editing a windows shortcut. And
Mac OS X isn't Windows. No one's asking you to make all that. I'm not
suggesting making a preference pane. I'm suggesting making a
preference window that's opened via a menu item. Which isn't that
hard at all to do.
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
It's either this, or imagining Phil Schiller in a thong.
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