Re: (Repost) Distributing 'recreatored' script apps...
Re: (Repost) Distributing 'recreatored' script apps...
- Subject: Re: (Repost) Distributing 'recreatored' script apps...
- From: Peter Bunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:22:06 -0600
Quite recently, Jon Pugh wrote:
>
In case of trouble, sacrifice a chicken and sprinkle the feathers over
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your head.
I think this may be the problem. I was going to fry some chicken last
night (though it was only half a chicken) and I got so frustrated with
everything else that I slammed a cold tuna salad sandwich instead. Bad
form.
And JJ commented:
>
There is no problem with your icons. If you rebuild your desktop files and
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it works rigth for you, it will work rigth for your users. The only
>
problem is about drag&drop capabilities of your droplet (if u' need 'em ;-)
(By the way JJ, drag and drop capability is 'restored' to run-only
droplets by matching BNDL signature to creator.)
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Thank you both for the guidance.
I _think_ I've been doing everything according to recipe with respect to
bundle bits, BNDL, FREF, etc. I haven't even dared changing icons. And
the script code has been proven more than once on other machines... but
not unless/until the desktop is rebuilt on the other machine. It is very
definitely a problem of the user's desktop DB not 'seeing' the app until
the user's desktop has been rebuilt.
But what about OS X? If one creates a script app in X, does all the
right things to it using ResEdit (in Classic), how does one force X to
see it? My understanding is that the desktop can no longer be rebuilt in
X.
Again, it's a matter of having no problem 'here'... the stuff all
works... but rather 'there', that is, on the user's machine.
I don't know if it's relevant or not, but I've noticed in X that script
apps don't retain a checked or set 'Inited' box. Put a check in it,
close and save the ResEdit info window, run the script, reopen in ResEdit
and 'Inited' is unchecked.
I will give it all yet another try. And be as methodical about it as
it's possible for me to be.
Perhaps it will take a turkey sacrifice... or pterodactyl.
Peter B.
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