Re: now it really gets weird
Re: now it really gets weird
- Subject: Re: now it really gets weird
- From: Brock Brandenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:31:39 -0500
Hi Michael.
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I posted awhile ago, about not being able to e-mail apps, but this is gettng
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bizarre.
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It turns out that only Apple's Mail client will allow me to select apps as
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attachments, but has anyone ever done that? When you then become the
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recipient, the apps are broken down into many separate files!
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At first I thought it was something in the cocoa development process, but
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then I attached the Chess and Clock apps and sent them to myself. Even
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those apps are fragmented into many files.
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What's going on here? I can't be developing with cocoa, if I can't e-mail
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the finished apps.
Stop and think about it for a moment. Except for a few Carbon apps, most
application bundles under Mac OS X are 'packages' which are nothing more
than a folder with a Finder bit twiddled to tell the Finder to treat the
bundle as a single, double-clickable item. Apps like Entourage (and probably
a few others) aren't modern enough to treat a file package properly, so they
simply treat them like a folder full of items. All you need to do is
manually stuff or compress an app bundle before sending it so that the email
application deals with a single binary file instead of a folder.
Brock Brandenberg
----- industrial design @ www.bergdesign.com ------
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