Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
- Subject: Re: Finder's open event has properties? Cal?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 16:56:50 -0800
At 17:36 -0500 12/5/00, email@hidden wrote:
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The second issue is the "open ... with properties" command. Whether this does
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anything at all depends on the final application, not the Finder. If the
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application knows to look for a <<class prdt>> argument, and takes action
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based
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on what it finds, then you've got something. But offhand, I don't know of any
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application that responds to this argument. Perhaps the original example
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(which
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I can't dig up now) used a specific application that took the
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"{visible:false}"
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property record and set its visibleness appropriately. But that's an
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application function, not a Finder function.
It's not too surprising that the applications tend not to look for a
<<class prdt>> parameter in an oapp event, given that the printed Inside
Mac says nothing about that possibility (which didn't exist at that time).
I haven't looked at the online version of that part of Inside Mac, so I
don't know whether the prdt is mentioned there or not.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA