Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- Subject: Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- From: John Timmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:26:26 -0400
An implementation suggestion for the type/creator issues quoted below:
Make the popup list of available types be a combo button, and have that
button accept drag and drop of other files. For the casual user, it's
probably the easiest way of getting at the type/creator of files they're
interested in.
An extension of this would be to have a preference for showing all
types/creators, or simply a user-built list. This user list would cater to
those who have one or a few types of files they get from other OS
environments that they frequently need to associate with the appropriate
app.
Overall, it looks excellent.
Jay
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> Just implement type/creator code editing and you will have one heck of a nice
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> program. Good job!
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I'm working on a plugin for that, it will be published as a sample plugin with
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full source code and API documentation.
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However, I'd like to display a popup containing all known extensions (and the
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apps which registered them), same for types and creators. Requiring the user
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to build a list is very awkward, and I'd rather avoid that.
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I know there are calls for that in Launch Services... calls like
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_AppGetAllApplications and so forth. Perhaps a part of that API should be
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published, at least to let us have read-only access to the application lists.