Re: (choose file of type "MooV")
Re: (choose file of type "MooV")
- Subject: Re: (choose file of type "MooV")
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 05:40:22 -0700
At 12:58p +0200 04/07/2004, Brennan didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
On 21/3/04 at 22:38, I wrote:
> > OSX 10.3.3:
> >
> > When I do (choose file of type "MooV") I am able to choose
> > files of type "MIDI", ".PDF", "MPEG" and others.
Hmmm. After reporting this bug, I just heard back from engineering, who
say
> NavServices treats 'MooV' and 'qtif' as meta types that represent all
> movie or image types that QuickTime can open.
What do other people think about this?
I think it's bad and wrong, since we can already pass a list of types
explicitly. Any software which thinks it knows what we want is inherently
wrong. No software has *ever* known what I wanted. Bytes are not psychic!
What if I wanted to write a script which *only* offered the user the
option of selecting bona-fide QuickTime movies or QT image files?
Exactly.
However, if file selection is going to use 'meta types', where developers
are expecting it to use types as it always has done, then we need a new
parameter to distinguish types and metatypes from each other.
I agree. Perhaps a boolean parameter, 'with/without meta types' or somesuch.
And the default should be 'without'. (Again, because it can't be psychic.)
-boo
wondering why a UPC number company code (for $5000 revenue and 1000 items)
will cost $1500 and then $450/year thereafter (it's extortion!).
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