On 3/31/05 12:17 PM, Mark Gilbert didst favor us with:
> This is a bit off topic, but I wondered if some experts on property
> lists could help.
>
> - We are experiencing a problem where Filemaker Pro will not 'link'
> to an application for its 'Send Event' script step. In that step the
> user can select an application to 'point' to. Filemaker is supposed
> to 'grab' the app (probably by getting its creator type) and then
> show the application name.
>
> However, quite commonly Filemaker fails to 'get' the app, and instead
> shows <unknown> when you point it to an application, however it works
> perfectly when you point it to something else.
>
> On my system, Filemaker is very happy to pick up the application name
> from things like Address Book, Preview and other system apps, but
> totally fails when I point it to my app, or many other apps like
> Acrobat Reader, Photoshop and lots of others. This happens on many
> customer systems too.
>
> I think it has something to do with the PLSTs on the apps, and also
> related to the launch services database. I have tried rebuilding the
> launch services DB, but it still only seems to like certain
> applications and not others. Stripping out virtually all the PLST
> stuff from a 'good' app then duplicating it still seems to work
> provided the file with the creator type is still inside the bundle.
> This tells me that its not actually getting the info from the app
> itself, but rather looking it up in the System using the creator type
> - but the info in the system must originally have come from the
> PLSTs.......
>
> So, I am rather stuck. I cannot fix this by rebuilding launch
> services, and I cannot figure out from the applications why one works
> and one doesnt. there must be some factor in the OS which is
> controlling this. Essentially some kind of binding between creator
> type and other information about an application. Besides Launch
> services, where else does this feature ?
>
> Any ideas would be welcomed.
How can you write so much and provide so little real info? Why don't you
tell us exactly how you're selecting the applications instead of using vague
words like "get" and "point to?" Any other specific info would probably be
helpful.
Larry
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