AW: The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Fri Jun 29 10:04:45 EDT 2007


Hiya,

There's no real ability for the HD to have folders, they are just an  
OS construct. Folders are files which point to where the files  
'inside' the folder are.
In a Mac app, the .app extension (if set to visible) just tells the  
OS that 'in there' lies an executable.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 29 Jun 2007, at 13:59, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Except in Windoze the user SEES the folder right there... right?
> On the mac, you at least have to know how to open up a package and  
> most users don't or don't care.
>
>  That's a big difference to me and I would think to the users, and  
> not the same thing. And when you double click a Win folder, you see  
> the contents, not start the app. Wouldn't an uninformed user have  
> the possibility to move the startup exe separately from the folder?
>
> sqb  (thankfully not of the Windows world)
>
>> From: "Stephen Barncard" <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
>>
>>> I didn't know that. I always thought a Windoze app usually  
>>> consisted of a bunch of little files. I guess a multi stack  
>>> project still is with Rev.
>>
>> We call it a file.  It is a file.  But the file is broken up into  
>> segments (header etc).  Works exactly the same as a "bundle".   
>> It's just that we think of it as a file because that's how it's  
>> presented to us in the OS. The same can be said for folders  
>> (directories). They are no more "real" than files.  ;-)
>>
>> Scott Kane
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