Re: Creator type of packaged app bug?
Re: Creator type of packaged app bug?
- Subject: Re: Creator type of packaged app bug?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:21:18 -0400
I have since determined that the other machine is NOT running the beta
version of System Events, while my machine is. It therefore looks like this
is a bug that has been fixed in the beta. (I recall that the beta came with
some release notes, but I seem to have misplaced mine.)
Can someone confirm this?
on 03-07-07 6:26 AM, Bill Cheeseman at email@hidden wrote:
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Please tell me if this is a known bug, and whether anything can be done to
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avoid it. (I still find the Apple mailing list search facilities unusable.)
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My script asks the Finder for the container of the application whose creator
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type is a specified 4-char string. On one machine, it correctly returns the
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container of the application package, but on another machine it returns the
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container ("MacOS") of the executable inside the application package. In
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both cases, I am targeting Now Up-to-Date 4.2.6 on Mac OS X 10.2.6.
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Both copies of the app are correctly-formed application packages. Both have
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been verified to contain the correct (now deprecated but still permitted)
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PkgInfo file containing the string "APPLCal*". Both also contain well-formed
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Info.plist files containing the correct values for the creator ('Cal*') and
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type ('APPL') keys. (I have not thought to ask whether the other machine has
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the beta GUI Scripting software installed, as mine does.)
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