Open a file in a standalone

If you're on os x, it's pretty easy.
You have to declare the document types you want to handle in the
Info.plist file in your MyApp's bundle contents directory:

To edit this file, you right-click (or control-click) on your app, and
select "Show Package Contents", open the Contents directory, and edit
Info.plist in TextEdit.

Consider storing a backup of this file so you can just drop it into a
new app each time you build it with Max.

Take a look at preview.app for a good example.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Do cuments/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/documentation/ Cocoa/Conceptual/Documents/Concepts/DocTypePList.html

_Mark

Check out the "opened" object.

I'm not sure if there is a help file for it, but there have been discussions about it on list/forums - search the archives and you'll find all kinds of useful information on it.

- DL

???
I can't find this "opened" object anywhere.
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Eric L.

Oh, yeah of course you have to handle the "odoc" apple event and do
the right thing with the path you're given.
There is an "odoc" object written for os 9 on maxobjects.com, anybody
feel like porting this?

_Mark

I don't have my iLok handy so I can't try it myself, but I'm pretty sure that's the name of the object.. it's a standard object, but unsupported (hence no help file).

A quick search of the C74 mailing list / forums brings up this thread which mentions the object though:

((sorry for some reason the forums keep displaying this address wrong!! it's adding an extra space))
https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=593 53

I've definitely seen it mentioned further back on the list as well..

- DL

Well...
I'm on OSX.
I know about info.plist but...
When I double-clic on MyFile created by MyApp, it does open MyApp, but
don't open MyFile in MyApp. Did I missed something?
i.e: MyFile should be opened by MyColl: how do MyApp knows that MyFile
has to be opened by MyColl, and not by MyColl2 ?
Thanks,
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Eric L.

That's what the opened object does according to the other post. So
when you're app gets an 'odoc' apple event, you have to handle it.
I'm guessing that's what 'opened' does. If not, I'd assume it would
be not so hard to write an external object that does something like
this using the carbon event manager api:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Concept ual/AppleEvents/index.html?http://developer.apple.com/docume ntation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleEvents/responding_aepg/c hapter_6_section_2.html

cheers

_Mark

lublin wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that's the name of the object..
> it's a standard object, but unsupported (hence no help file).

This is the help file which is on my system, either from the list, or
original...

But it seems to need a bang to report anything, and it seems not to
report what it supposed to do. (OS X 10.4.4, Max 4.5.6)

Stefan

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I just tested it... and it seems to work (same setup). In fact, you
won't need to send a bang: when you opened your application while
double-clicking on your file (or dragging the icon of the file to
your application's icon), the path is automatically sent to the
outlet. The only one problem here is about folder which doesn't work
(while dragging the folder to the application).

Best,
ej