Re: App Supplied Coercion?
Re: App Supplied Coercion?
- Subject: Re: App Supplied Coercion?
- From: Ehsan Saffari <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 06:07:26 -0600
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:53, Jon Pugh <email@hidden> commanded:
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At 9:12 PM -0600 8/2/2001, Ehsan Saffari wrote:
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>Thanks. I am interested in finding the coercions without launching every
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>app or checking the docs. Is there a programmatic method for finding
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>these coercions?
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You can't do it without launching the app, since there are no required
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resources necessary. You can do it all from code.
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That said, there's an aeinfo dcmd for Macsbug which dumps the AE handler
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(and coercion) tables. This is probably the easiest solution. You can
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call AEGetCoercionHandler to get the address of the handler, for all the
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good that does. ;)
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The aeinfo dcmd is here: http://www.merzwaren.com/snippets/
Thanks Jon, but as much as I enjoy messing with Macsbug ;) I was looking
for a method to find the coercions by AS, turns out AkuaSweets does it:
the installed coercions: Get a list of the currently installed coercions.
the installed coercions in the system area/in the application area
cheers
ehsan