At 13:46 -0700 4/23/05, Rich Morin wrote: >I have an AppleScript Application which I wish to have launched >whenever a file named "*.xyz" is double-clicked. I can do this >using the Finder's Get Info dialog (ie, "Open With...", then >"Other...", then "Change All..."), but I want to do this from an >installation shell script, so I need a "command line" solution.
It is easy to use SetFile to set the creator code for the files to some four character code. It ought to be easy to set the type code for the AppleScript APPL in some plist that exists within the package that is the AppleScript APPL. If that were done the rules, as of 10.3.9, still say that Finder should honor opening of files with creator code that matches the type code assigned to the APPL.. But how can one change the type of the AppleScript APPL? And is Steve going to change the rules for OS Tiger? -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--
