Hi Roland,
Thanks for your pointers. Sorry for the delay in replying, as I've been
putting them into practice. I now know why you wished me luck!
The good news is that I've managed to get the app running (after sorting
out a few legacy bugs/os quirks with Filenames - if anyone is
interested, I can post on those).
I've also managed to achieve a double clickable (by setting the file
type on the image on the first start up, to that of the engine).
The bad news is that, after burning the candle that I haven't been able
to get the mailto: nor the browser to open from within my app. It
appears to have made the call, but nothing happens. (even when I have
them open, ready for the events).I've managed to launch applications,
but I can't use this as the paths need to be hardwired, and this won't
be consistent for all users.
Anyway, it's all pretty academic, as this is a legacy OS. Having said
that I'll be able to get my only potential user up and running, and I've
learnt a lot about Apple Events etc, which is useful in itself.
Thanks again,
Cheers,
Stewart
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Roland Wagener [mailto:
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>Sent: 14 August 2007 3:19 a.m.
>To: Stewart MacLean
>Cc:
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>Subject: Re: [Mac OS 9] Some deployment questions...
>
>Hi Stewart
>
>please look into the file <visualworks>/packaging/mac/MacPackaging.txt.
>This explains your questions regarding the application being
>double-clickable, it combines a runtime image with a VM. BUT you can
>perform this combination task only on a Mac running MacOS9, and having
>MPW installed!
>
>However, opening a mailto-URL has been done, but I forgot how. Related
>information may be found in the MacExtra parcel, the extra calls to
>launch an app or a document on a MacOS9-machine are explained there.
>
>Good luck
>
>Roland
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>Stewart MacLean schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm packaging on Windows XP and renaming the object engine from
>> visual.bin to myApp.bin.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, when I unzip on the target machine, the object engine
appears
>> as visual. It also has the VW icon.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how do I go about tailoring these to my
app?
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, is it possible to get a double click start up? Currently, I
have
>> to double click the engine, and then select the image to start.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also need to invoke the default email program. How do I go about
using
>> mailto:... <mailto:...> On the Mac OS 9?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Stewart
>>
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