Re: Newbie: Current Apps Directory
Re: Newbie: Current Apps Directory
- Subject: Re: Newbie: Current Apps Directory
- From: Brant Vasilieff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:52:04 -0700
Permits is a nice word. Please, just don't require them to be placed
beside the application.
There are already enough applications that don't behave nicely within
the Applications folder. This isn't Mac OS9 anymore. Many prefer to
keep their Application folder populated with only launch-able items,
not folders of applications.
If you have supporting data files, like plug-ins or books, the user or
admin should be able to configure their system to find those computer
wide in "/Library/Application Support/YourApp/", or user specific in
"~/Library/Application Support/YourApp/". Any help books that you ship
by default could easily be packaged within you application.
Attn: Douglas
It would be nice if there was a mechanism for handling dropping support
files into the "Applications" folder. Something similar to the way Mac
OS9 handles dropping fonts and extensions into the "System Folder."
Let applications define their plug-in extension names, and a default
installation installation path for when support files are dropped into
the "Applications" folder. The system could then ask the user if they
want to automatically move the items into the proper folders like in
Mac OS9.
Whatever happened to the finder info pane for installing plug-ins?
Until then, we could allow our applications to handle the drop and, if
it wasn't already installed, ask to place it in the correct location.
This probably won't work as well for help books as it would for
plug-ins.
You could always handle the help books the way OmniWeb does plug-ins
within the finder's Get Info.
In the end there's not much difference between suggesting
"~/Library/Application Support/YourApp/" and in "/Applications". If
you only allow one, they're both restrictive. You should however make
sure at least look in the Application Support varieties, because
they're the standard locations.
Cheers,
Brant
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 07:07 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
Please don't make applications that do this sort of thing. Just put
the data file in the application bundle and access it via NSBundle's
-pathForResource:ofType: or put the data file in a
~/Libary/ApplicationSupport directory. Don't search the entire
Applications directory or clutter file systems with random data files.
This is just my opinion, and I don't mean to be insulting. I am just
expressing my (and I think Apple's) wishes.
Hi,
Hold on here. My application permits the user to place files in the
same folder as the application so the application can access the files
(all the files). I did not want the user doing complex selection in an
open panel. I felt the user experience would be simplified. Writing a
help book that tells the user to place a file in this or that ~/Library
folder is not a good idea (my opinion).
Is there any apple employee out there that knows of a "don't do
this...." file access rule?
Craig Bakalian
www.eThinkingCap.com
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