I'm trying to make a Java external crossplatform but i still don't own a 

mac, so i wonder if there's a reliable way to know where's 

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I'm trying to make a Java external crossplatform but i still don't own a 
mac, so i wonder if there's a reliable way to know where's 
max-fileformat.txt on OSX ?

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wheres-max-fileformat-txt-on-a-mac

the mac will understand .dll when you allow a mac program

to open such a file and when the library contrains code 

there are a few programs which actually use .dll since mac

os 8.. for example from microsoft, but there are also audio 

you mentioned aPcs ... even cubase/nuendo require plug-ins

to be typed properly to be able to open them.

if they wouldnot, the average blonde would be opening

photoshop filters in cubase 24/7 and post in the cycling 

forums about his problems releated to the resulting chrash.

the aPcs of classic/carbon is the .vst of mach-o and the

.dll on windows ... and that has not completely 

changed now only because the current maxmsp programs 

the mac will understand .dll when you allow a mac program
to open such a file and when the library contrains code 
which runs in OS X intel.

there are a few programs which actually use .dll since mac
os 8.. for example from microsoft, but there are also audio 
programs.

you mentioned aPcs ... even cubase/nuendo require plug-ins
to be typed properly to be able to open them.
if they wouldnot, the average blonde would be opening
photoshop filters in cubase 24/7 and post in the cycling 
forums about his problems releated to the resulting chrash.

the aPcs of classic/carbon is the .vst of mach-o and the
.dll on windows  ... and that has not completely 
changed now only because the current maxmsp programs 
can use mach-o for externals.


> I was wondering if anybody really needs to keep the old boring file 

> format specific to max (aPcs, iLaf...) to interact with a file chooser

I still have plenty of patches called "Clock" and "add3" and "Maezel" 

and "@" on my hard disk with nary a .mxb or .pat in sight. Spotlight 

finds over 9,000 Max-related items and I don't know when I'm going to 

get around to checking them all for extensions, whereas the old 

Finder Type codes still work fine. BTW, this iLaf stuff is not so 

much specific to Max as to Mac OS. That's the way things were done 

Parsing max-fileformat.txt is a great idea, but you'll find that 

99.99999% of your users have identical copies. So it might be easier 

to hard-code the list once for your Java project and be done with it.

Not really. The equivalent term on Mac OS was a "Shared Library" and 

like everything else they were identified by Finder File Type and 

Creator Code, not by a filename extension. Sometimes they come with 

filename extensions like .lib or .shlb but that's rare.

You were wanting to open DLLs from the standard Open File dialog?

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On 11-Aug-2006, at 13:05, f.e wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody really needs to keep the old boring file  
> format specific to max (aPcs, iLaf...) to interact with a file chooser

I still have plenty of patches called "Clock" and "add3" and "Maezel"  
and "@" on my hard disk with nary a .mxb or .pat in sight. Spotlight  
finds over 9,000 Max-related items and I don't know when I'm going to  
get around to checking them all for extensions, whereas the old  
Finder Type codes still work fine. BTW, this iLaf stuff is not so  
much specific to Max as to Mac OS. That's the way things were done  
for almost twenty years.

Parsing max-fileformat.txt is a great idea, but you'll find that  
99.99999% of your users have identical copies. So it might be easier  
to hard-code the list once for your Java project and be done with it.

Not really. The equivalent term on Mac OS was a "Shared Library" and  
like everything else they were identified by Finder File Type and  
Creator Code, not by a filename extension. Sometimes they come with  
filename extensions like .lib or .shlb but that's rare.

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where's max-fileformat.txt on a mac ?