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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 16:07:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Don Heyse wrote:
> > 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.
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> I'll have to look into "Get Info". Being new to the Mac, I don't know
> what it means.
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 All" if you want to use that application for all files of the selected
type.
Applications can claim support for various file types, but it's the user's
choice (via this interface) which application should be used by default if the
file is understood by multiple programs.
> 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.
OK, as I understand it you want a DAT link to open the file directly in a
program without saving the file to disk. While this might be convenient for
LDraw, in general this sort of behavior is viewed, unfairly or not, as rather
shady. If an HTML link to an LDraw file can run a program on my computer without
my assistance, what's to stop a link to some other seemingly-innocuous file from
running a not-so-innocuous program on my computer?
I have Leopard, but I don't really know about the "risk settings" stuff. A user
definitely should not be instructed to edit property lists, though, to use
programs of their choice. Isn't that approval taken care of automatically the
first time you run a newly downloaded program?
Anyway, it sounds like the remaining obstacle in your setup is that the
downloaded file is visibly saved to disk before being opened in another program;
I assume you would prefer it download to a temporary location?
It may be that the Mac simply does not handle this sort of integration as well
as Windows. Hopefully others can help you work out a satisfactory solution.
Jim
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 | | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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| (...) OK, long time Mac users here. In the days of long ago, most/all browsers could be configured so that when the browser didn't know what to do with a file, a helper application, specified by the user, could jump in to open the file for you. (I (...) (17 years ago, 23-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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| (...) 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? (...) I'll have to look into "Get Info". Being new to the Mac, I don't know what it means. (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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