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Re: Looking for info on creating Plugins/Modules


  • Subject: Re: Looking for info on creating Plugins/Modules
  • From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:37:19 -0500

On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:05 AM, Chris Hanson wrote:

- Your plug-ins should have a document type and UTI declared in your app's Info.plist so they can be recognized as file packages rather than folders by the Finder and get a nice icon.

Another nice effect of this is the same behavior you get from the System Preferences app with respect to .prefPane bundles. When you double click on a plug-in, the app to which it belongs can open it and ask if you wish to install it, and if so whether to do so for all users (/Library/Application Support) or just for yourself (~/Library/ Application Support).


This is a very nice end user experience IMHO. It saves them the trouble of having to navigate through folders they're likely to be unfamiliar with in order to "install" the plug-in.

sherm--

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