Bundles... fascinating...
Shari
gypsyware at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 14 15:35:01 EST 2002
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/Bundles/index.html
Fascinating reading, thanks Richard, for posting this link (or
rather, the link that took me here :-)
Far as I can tell, there are several URL-related bundles that can be
listed in the plist file. I didn't find any in Metacard's plist
file. Yet the URLS seem to work (at least for me and my testers :-)
This cleared up the last question I had about the OSX bundle. The
anomaly regarding the Mach-0 file in the contents folder which is the
engine, and my own standalone. Far as I can tell, it does not need
both. The file that gets created as my OSX standalone replaces, or
IS, the MetaCardCarbonMach-O file (but not the
MetaCardCarbonMach-0.rsrc file, which should never be tampered with).
I'm still a little fuzzy on the
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.metacard.MetaCard</string>
bundle. Far as I can tell, this is something to uniquely identify a
program, sort of like the creator code. Having been "bit" by the
Metacard menu appearing, I'm going to try changing this key as well.
I didn't read any reason not to. Though it sure doesn't look like a
string that would be all that unique...
Shari
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