Re: Dictionaries for apps inside 'packages'
Re: Dictionaries for apps inside 'packages'
- Subject: Re: Dictionaries for apps inside 'packages'
- From: Brennan Young <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:07:28 +0200
- Organization: Magic Lantern
Deivy Petrescu wrote:
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As Jeff said, it is not really ancient, but it is, apparently,
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incapable of handling .app applications.
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However, you also reported a way around it by using FBuddy.
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By the way, Smile 1.7.5 does not see .app applications as well.
OK, well anyway, the company making the software has dropped the idea of
packages now because of this and various other complications that they
impose. I don't know how this will pan out on the OSX version, which
'requires' packages for resource forks as far as I know.
IMHO packages are a great idea, but they are simply not integrated well
enough into the OS, which should have implemented package support from
the moment they appeared. (I'm thinking particularly of 'Open', and
'Save' dialogs which do not see packages as a subclass of the folder
object, but as some other kind of thing altogether).
Forcing people to have 'MacOS 9.1 or later' is just not acceptable.
I also doubt that every open and save dialog you'll see under 9.1 will
be able to look inside packages.
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Brennan