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Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Thu, 15 May 2008 15:09:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Jim DeVona wrote:
> http://ldraw.org/Article46.html
This documents a bunch of mime types, but I could swear the only one
ever used is application/x-ldraw. I'm pretty sure it works for mpd
files as well as ordinary dat files, but maybe the file has to have
a .dat extension?
> Can't the user just use "Get Info" to assign an application of their
> choice to open files of a certain type? Reasonable defaults are
> important, of course. I'm trying to reproduce the problem Don describes
> but I'm not exactly sure what is expected to happen.
I'll have to look into "Get Info". Being new to the Mac, I don't know
what it means. My problem was that I could make a bundle for
ldglite (or whatever) that makes it open the file in my app when you
double click on a local file. However I could only get safari to dump
the DAT file on the desktop when I clicked on the DAT links. Is
"Get Info" is a way to set the Safari Risk settings preference file
through the Mac GUI? Anyhow, with the safe settings I can Safari
still dumps the DAT file on the desktop, but now it also automatically
opens it in ldglite for viewing. Not quit as nice as the Windows
setup, but getting much closer.
> Incidentally, it's kind of weird that the DAT files for the parts
> contest just contain references to separate files you might have to
> grab from the part tracker. LDView makes that easy enough, but I'm
> curious why a link to the actual part is not provided on the contest
> page.
I couldn't get back to those links once I voted, so can't really
comment, except to say the note about it on that page is why I
started thinking about getting LDView working with web DAT links.
Do you have that working already?
Don
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| (...) Select a file in the Finder and select "Get Info" from the "File" menu (or press Command-I). Under the "Open With:" section of the little window that appears, choose an application to open the selected file when double-clicked. Click "Change (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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| (...) For what it's worth there is a guide to this topic on LDraw.org: (URL) confirms application/x-ldraw (and application/x-multi-part-ldraw for MPDs). Can't the user just use "Get Info" to assign an application of their choice to open files of a (...) (16 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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