RE: Setting the bundle package bit
RE: Setting the bundle package bit
- Subject: RE: Setting the bundle package bit
- From: "Joel May" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:51:06 -0500
I've found that there is redundancy as to whether a folder is an app
bundle. If it has the ".app" extension or the package bit, it is
treated like an app bundle. My problem is that I want to sometimes
treat the bundle as a folder hierarchy and sometimes as an app. I need
to be able to toggle this within an AppleScript.
I'm having problems coping files into this folder via a script when the
package bit is set. If I leave the bit on, the script fails. If I
manually turn it off, the script works. But I want the script to turn
it off and back on.
I looked at the properties record for a folder. There is a ton of
stuff in it -- dates, creator/file type 4-byte thingies, etc. But there
is nothing about the package bit.
Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Aker [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:19 PM
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Setting the bundle package bit
Oops,
Instead of "version.plist", I think the better file to have is
"PkgInfo"--a plain text file containing the file type and creator:
APPLTest
or
APPL????
if you don't need a creator.
Philip
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 02:44 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
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On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 01:26 AM, Joel May wrote:
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> How do you set the package bit for an app bundle via AppleScript?
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I'm not sure. I thought it would have been possible with
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/Developer/Tools/SetFile (-aB option) but I guess not. What I've
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noticed though is that if you re-create the folder hierarchy of a
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bundle:
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Test.app
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Contents
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Info.plist
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MacOS
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version.plist
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and put some reasonable values into the fields in the "Info.plist" and
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"version.plist" files, the Finder will display this folder as an
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application. You'll have to quit the Finder and then launch it again
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so that it can refresh its application database.
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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