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Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
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Date: 
Sun, 25 May 2008 01:56:53 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Don Heyse wrote:
> > I don't either, but I think the problem is that ldglite uses a really,
> > really old version of the info.plist settings, probably obsolete.  I have
> > to read up a bit on the new keys to see what they do.  According to these
> > notes, things changed a bit in Tiger.
> > 
> >   http://lists.apple.com/archives/Spotlight-dev/2007/Jul/msg00018.html
> >   http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2005/Oct/msg00096.html
> > 
> > Once I've got that down I'll see if bringing my info.plist file up to
> > date makes it work better with the other apps.
> 
> Well, I tried that, and all it did was make it so that LDView couldn't
> be chosen as the app to open LDraw files at all.  Comparing to L3Lab's
> Info.plist, I haven't the foggiest why.  The L3Lab one seems to work.
> 
> However, when I carefully cleaned everything up (using the CFBundle*
> tags), and commented out LSItemContentTypes tags (leaving the
> UTExportedTypeDeclarations list alone) it let me assign LDView as
> the default app, and doing so actually stuck, and worked via Safari.

Maybe you could email me your working plist because I'm at the "just
making things worse" stage.  I tried cloning the L3Lab plist file
and that made ldglite disappear from the list of choices for ldraw files.

I was kinda hoping lsregister with the -lint flag would point out the
flaws in my file, but it was completely silent about my problems.
Although it did mention a PkgInfo signature mismatch in whatever I've
got for an LDView installation.  Might want to look into that if you
haven't fixed it already.

Don



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  Re: Making the DAT links work in safari.
 
(...) Well, I tried that, and all it did was make it so that LDView couldn't be chosen as the app to open LDraw files at all. Comparing to L3Lab's Info.plist, I haven't the foggiest why. The L3Lab one seems to work. However, when I carefully cleaned (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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