Re: Droplet for CD
Re: Droplet for CD
- Subject: Re: Droplet for CD
- From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:12:18 -0700
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
"Bob.Kalbaugh" wrote:
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on 9/19/01 5:21 PM, Christopher Nebel at email@hidden wrote:
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> By the way, if you don't mind futzing around with ResEdit a bit, you can
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> alter the droplet so it will only accept disks. (I.e., the Finder will
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> only let you drop disks on it.) Open the droplet in ResEdit, open the
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> "BNDL" resource, and delete the "****" and "fold" items.
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I have seen this mentioned before, and on other lists, but it simply does
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not work OMM ( 8.5.1 ). Is there a restriction? Is there something else that
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I need to do? I'm assuming that when you say "...will only accept disks.",
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you mean that the droplet will not highlight unless its a disk.
There I go again, claiming that stuff works without actually trying it. I've
actually done this now, and it turns out there are two caveats:
First, you'll probably have to rebuild your desktop before the changes will
actually "take".
Second (and this is the really important one), you'll have to give your
specialized applet its own creator code. (Change both the creator code on the
file and the signature in the BNDL resource.) It seems the system can't really
distinguish between different apps with the same creator, so if you don't
change your special one, then either it will work just like an ordinary
droplet, or every droplet you have will only accept disks!
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
P.S.: Yes, the effect you get is that the droplet won't highlight unless the
thing is a disk.