Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Path Finder 2.0
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:00:18 +0200
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:51 , Steve Gehrman wrote:
Have you ever wondered what the Finder would be like if it were
completely rewritten in Cocoa?
No. I know it -- I've used Workspace Manager. And am longing for it all
the time with the Finder stuff. Alas it's not that easy to replace Finder
in 10.1, since there are bugs: eg. preview stops working :(
Take a look: http://www.cocoatech.com/products/PathFinder.tgz
Great -- I'm looking forward to check it!
I'm adding a plugin architecture in the next release, so if you're
interested in writing plugins, send me an email.
Do please consider that majority of programmers are lazy beasts who don't
debug too much. Therefore, but for really simplest tasks, it's generally
better to use separate processes and communicate with them via DO than
true plugins.
If you remember Workspace Manager, you'll know it had a few excellent
plugin APIs, like the one for generic inspectors, which allowed more or
less *any* file type to be shown (and even edited) in the Inspector window.
Alas it was true plugin though, and so if you used more such plugins
Workspace Manager became lazy (for they were not written multithreaded)
and became unstable (since bugs in plugins took it down).
(Incidentally, I guess this is also the true -- and sensible -- reason for
Apple not publishing the extra menu API.)
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