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Re: Launch older app


  • Subject: Re: Launch older app
  • From: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:41:31 +0100

Hi Michael,
I don't think that changing CFBundleSignature at any version would be a nice
idea. Think about the preferences file, Spotlight plug-in (my app has one),
various database of software for Mac (see VersionTracker)...


Best Regards
--
Lorenzo
email: email@hidden

> From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:17:00 -0600
> To: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
> Cc: Michael Hall <email@hidden>, email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Launch older app
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2005, at 1:59 AM, Lorenzo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> any time I double click on a file created with my application, the
>> Finder
>> launches an old version of my application and not the latest version.
>> No matter if the older version has an older creation and
>> modification date.
>> I compile defining a version string for the application, which I
>> suppose
>> doesn't help. What should I set to let the Finder recognize the latest
>> version?
>>
>
> These can be a number of things I think. Your new application has to
> be set up correctly. You can use a different CFBundleSignature in the
> Info.plist to distinguish it.
> These might help, they do provide some way of getting at the launch
> services settings anyhow...
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004100508111340
>
> Mike Hall        mikehall at spacestar dot net
> http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative
>
>
>

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