Re: System contextual menus
Re: System contextual menus
- Subject: Re: System contextual menus
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:37:39 -0200
At 18:52 +0000 31/01/2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Malte Tancred wrote:
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>If I recall correctly, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP supported service bundles. The bundles had the extension .service and if placed in one of the standard .../Library/Services directories they would be loaded dynamically by all applications. Ie, no need to launch an application.
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>I'm not sure I remember correctly though, and I can't say if it works this way in Mac OS X.
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You do and it does.
Interesting. I remember hearing the spelling services are implemented in this way (but also that there was some snag). I'll try to check it out... thanks for the tip.
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