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3 total messages Started by Edward Chew Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:01

#1046

Author: Edward Chew
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 23:01

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This is very strange.  I recently upgraded from CWPro 6 to 7, and Mac OS 
X seems to think my executable has turned into a ResEdit file.  If I 
double-click on it from the Finder, it opens up in ResEdit to reveal the 
resources contained therein (it's a single-file Carbonized app).  I can 
still launch it from within CodeWarrior without a problem.

The previously compiled version I made with CWPro6 still launches 
correctly.  If I Show Info on the file, it is identified correctly as an 
Application.  Somewhere in the bowels of OS X there must be a database 
of what files belong to which applications, and I think maybe mine got 
corrupted somehow.  Any idea how I might fix this?

Edward Chew

Re: Application launches into ResEdit

#1047

Author: MW Ron
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:00

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In article <3C83FCE2.7070105@kos.net>, Edward Chew <lgl-echew@kos.net> 
wrote:

>This is very strange.  I recently upgraded from CWPro 6 to 7, and Mac OS 
>X seems to think my executable has turned into a ResEdit file.  If I 
>double-click on it from the Finder, it opens up in ResEdit to reveal the 
>resources contained therein (it's a single-file Carbonized app).  I can 
>still launch it from within CodeWarrior without a problem.

Find the application in the OS X finder  and do a command i on it and 
you will see a launch with option.  That must be set for ResEdit.  
Probably the first time you opened an application of that type in OS X 
it was from ResEdit.

that is my guess.

The "desktop file" in OS X can be rebuilt by removing the three files
beginning "LS" in "~/Library/Preferences" and restarting Finder.

>The previously compiled version I made with CWPro6 still launches 
>correctly.  If I Show Info on the file, it is identified correctly as an 
>Application.  Somewhere in the bowels of OS X there must be a database 
>of what files belong to which applications, and I think maybe mine got 
>corrupted somehow.  Any idea how I might fix this?

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Re: Application launches into ResEdit

#1048

Author: meeroh
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 05:04

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In article <3C83FCE2.7070105@kos.net>, Edward Chew <lgl-echew@kos.net> 
wrote:

>This is very strange.  I recently upgraded from CWPro 6 to 7, and Mac OS 
>X seems to think my executable has turned into a ResEdit file.  If I 
>double-click on it from the Finder, it opens up in ResEdit to reveal the 
>resources contained therein (it's a single-file Carbonized app).  I can 
>still launch it from within CodeWarrior without a problem.

At some point, you selected one of the rsrc files which get compiled 
into your application in the Mac OS X Finder, and in the Finder 
Inspector window you selected "open with --> ResEdit". That put a 'usro' 
resource in the .rsrc file, which you are now building into your app, 
causing the Finder to open your app with ResEdit.

Find the offending file and remove the resource.

hth

meeroh
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