Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
- Subject: Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 10:38:22 -0400
on 10/7/01 7:21 AM, Ondra Cada at email@hidden wrote:
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anyone who understands how the Carbon (does not) _REALLY_ support(s)
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Services in 10.1? I'm a Cocoa developer and don't know and don't want to know
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Carbon; my customers though complain that services published by my Cocoa
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apps are not available in Carbon apps in 10.1!
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I've tried myself the simplest thing -- the TextEdit's "Open Selection"
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service, and right they are! Unlike to 10.0, the menu is there, but _is not
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available and does not work_ -- tested in
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- BBEdit (agreed that this might be a pre-10.1 code, which does not support
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Services; but it should be a framework thing, not an app-specific one,
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shouldn't it?!?);
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- M$ Word (this is a 10.1-only application though!);
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- Finder and AppleWorks from Apple.
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What the heck? Is it an app-specific thing and nobody (including Apple
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itself!) cares to use the code, or is it a framework thing as it should be,
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but with some bug which prevents proper usage?
Somebody from Apple explained a few days ago, on this list if I recall
correctly, that Services will use the same facility and work across Carbon
and Cocoa environments in A Future Release.
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