Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
- Subject: Re: Slightly OT: what about the Services?
- From: Evan Gross <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:11:25 -0400
- BBEdit (agreed that this might be a pre-10.1 code, which does not
support
Services; but it should be a framework thing, not an app-specific one,
shouldn't it?!?);
- M$ Word (this is a 10.1-only application though!);
- Finder and AppleWorks from Apple.
What the heck? Is it an app-specific thing and nobody (including Apple
itself!) cares to use the code, or is it a framework thing as it should
be,
but with some bug which prevents proper usage?
Services are not "for free" in Carbon apps (because they aren't all
built on top of the same framework like Cocoa apps are). Developers have
to support some not-too-tricky Carbon Events (see near the bottom of
CarbonEvents.h) and there aren't any shippings apps (that I know of)
that have been rev'ed yet.
But there is a great interest in doing so (see the Carbon lists, which I
guess you won't but others might), and developers (like me, that do both
Carbon and Cocoa) are happy to see this feature at least made available.
There are issues to work out, especially with attributed text (there's
nothing in Carbon to deal with NSAttributedStrings or in Cocoa to deal
with 'utxt' format - but Apple is aware of this issue and hopefully some
OS-level filters will appear so that Services don't have to blow away
the user's formatting...
HTH,
Evan Gross
Rainmaker Research Inc.
(Sorry if this is a duplicate, I got two different errors from Mail.app
even though it reported 100% sent each time).