A cross-platform answer file?

[Robert Brenstein]

>Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'd much rather see Tuviah and all other Mac developers spend their time
>>  making cool features that really show off what OS X has to offer rather than
>>  spending time reinventing forgotten wheels.
>
>I second this ;-)
>

Well, I feel I should oppose. Being able to open selected files by us 
and users of our programs is an important feature. Even under Classic 
OS, the stdfile proc allowed to insert custom filtering since 
standard was often not enough. Yes, Apple could possibly support both 
type and suffix as filter options in system, but Revolution still 
needs to provide a syntax for to pass the specification providing 
functionality requested by Rev users (cf. discussion of bug 605). In 
other words, much of the work has to be done anyway. At this level, I 
don't care whether Rev uses procs supplied by Apple or make their 
own. This is between them an Apple (or Microsoft or else).

Robert