newbie: OS X and answer file ?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Scott,

>> ...
>> answer file "sdsdsdd" with filter "*.jpg"
>> does not work at all on OS X (not that that would have surprised me 
>> ;-)
>> answer file "sddsd" of type "JPEG"
>> really shows some files and others not...
>> Can anybody shed some light on this, please?
>>
>>
>> But looks like:
>> answer file "sdsdsdd" with filter "GIFf"
>> for gif-files works as exspected.
>>
>> !!! Please note the correct spelling:
>> capital G, I, F but a small f at the end!!!
>
> Perhaps the answer mechanism is looking at Mac-based file type 
> information,
> not at filename suffixes?  I could be wrong but I don't believe "jpg" 
> is a
> valid JPEG filetype so maybe that's why some items appear unavailable.

i think it is also a bit OS X's fault :-)

It is an OS in progress/transition and right now it supports resources
(the old mac legacy ;-) as well as resource-less files...

And RR/MC is still doing the resource-stuff on X, so some jpgs (and 
other filetypes)
will not be shown/be dimmed in the opendialog...

I'd like to see the suffix also being supported for "answer file..." on 
the Mac ;-)

> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de