On 28-11-2005 18:36:39 +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > Ok. Now I get what you want. For the image converting applications, > > > you might want to go for some 'drop file on' solution, like > > > Photoshop has. You simply drop a file on the icon, and it's being > > > converted somehow. I think this is quite generic somehow. Interesting! > > > > Nice idea, but currently not doable, I am afraid. My ObjectiveC / Cocoa > > knowledge is not upto task to do something as complicated as drag-and-drop > > programming ;) > > > > When I used to use Fink, I wrote this script for viewing PostScript files > with Fink's ghostview (Preview.app under Jaguar wasn't able to open them). > > http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/sw/launcher.applescript > > To use it, just paste the script into Script Editor, change the PATH > variables, and save as application. You can then drop stuff on it from > finder and that stuff will get opened by gv in X11.
Yeah, thanks. This is exactly what I meant. Those kind of scripts are easy to generate, and may come in handy. Question remains if this is a job for us to do or not, and if so, how we would enable/disable it. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead -- [email protected] mailing list
