Comma-Delimited Files on Macs

[Gregory Lypny]

Hi Richard,

Interesting, didn’t know that.  Educating users is, or will be, no mean task, though.

Thanks for sharing,

Gregory


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Gregory Lypny wrote:
> 
>> Richard, I?m afraid that changing the extension does not cause the type to change.
> 
> It's worse than you think:  file types have no meaning anymore in OS X.
> 
> In versions prior to Snow Leopard they did, but they were deprecated in 
> Snow Leopard and will eventually be gone from the system entirely.
> 
> Instead, the way forward is fully dependent on the file name extension.
> 
> One of the byproducts of the loss of file type and creator codes is that 
> we no longer have a means of binding a file to a particular app without 
> adjusting the "Open With..." settings in the Finder's Get Info window. 
> If you choose a reasonably unique file type extension (e.g. ".livecode") 
> you have better chances of it launching the app you want, but for more 
> generic types it's anyone's guess as to what will happen.
> 
> Given the ambiguity inherent in the new paradigm with regard to which 
> app will be launched when a document is double-clicked, for generic 
> types like "txt" and "csv" the best move is to educate users to open a 
> file from within their application.
> 
> --
>  Richard Gaskin