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Re: Bug using Applescript applet as helper app?
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Re: Bug using Applescript applet as helper app?


  • Subject: Re: Bug using Applescript applet as helper app?
  • From: "Roger Howard" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:18:04 -0700

Neil,

Michelle's right, you need to assign a unique creator to your applets foir this to work (or target them using file references or aliases, but that's shakey and just not right).

Michelle,

I do this exact same thing with a helper applet... it allows me to avoid all the nastiness of file helper management in File Exchange and Internet control panels, I have a nice simplified preferences system where I can assign helper and file types and post processing options in groups (rather than one type at a type) and using filters and wildcards, and then even group those together to assign default handlers, etc. It's much more portable than the Internet Config system too as I can easily move the helper applet around to various systems, even have different sets for different users, and it's also portable to OSX! Not to mention I don't get the nasty corruption that tends to occur with old (and BIG) Internet Config prefs. Generally, it's the Internet Config I always wanted and never got, and it solves other problems too (like auto-typing files on demand, etc.)

I've been meanign to publish this one day, maybe now that someone has validated my own needs with theirs I'll do it :) It wasn't all that tough either, as I recall I had most every handler already built (in my script libraries which are linked in dynamically for the most part) and only had to pause when I decided I also wanted to be able to sync some of the preferences back (and forth) with Internet Config for sanity's sake. Oy.

Let me know if this is of any interest - I rarely even think about the fact that I'm using it anymore, it's just part of my environment but I'd be willing to give it a once over and statically link in my handlers and let you have the whole mess...

Roger Howard
Digital Media Specialist
Museum Information Systems
The J. Paul Getty Trust

email@hidden
310.440.6908

>>This is strange since in my browser setting I specify the helper app
>>by targeting it through "post-process with application" in IE and
>>through "handled by" in Netscape. It seems in both Netscape and IE it
>>doesn't matter what you specify as the helper app. The helper app
>>will always be the latest new complied Applescript applet.
>>
>>Has anybody experience this phenomenon before?
>
>This is because although you select the helper app by name, the system
>recognizes it by creator type. All Applescript applets have the same
>creator type, so whichever is the last one created on the disk will be
>called.
>
>The cure is to assign a unique creator type to your applet; you can do
>this with any of a number of utilities, or with Applescript itself.
>
>I am curious, though, as to what processing this applet does.
>
>--Michelle


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