Selecting an application

[Ken Ray]

An FYI to the list: Richard and I worked this out last night and it's
something so easy, we both overlooked it:

  answer file "Pick an app:" of type "APPL"

It turns out that in OS X, this filter is special to the OS, and it
allows you to see and select apps of all different types (Cocoa,
Carbon/Mach-O, Carbon/CFM and Classic).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 12:49 PM
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> Subject: Selecting an application
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> 
> Here's a tough one:  Suppose you want to have a script that 
> prompts the user to select an application in OS X.  Remember 
> that in OS X some "applications" are files and some are 
> folders.  This means that neither "answer folder" nor "answer 
> file" can be used.
> 
> What would you do?
> 
> Scot:Can we get an "answer application" for OS X which will 
> use the Finder's API for that?
> 
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin 
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