Open application when file double clicked

[Paul Dupuis]

Your "Info.plist" file in the OSX app bundle needs to be edited to
define the allowed file types that can be dropped on your application.

This appears to be a OSX constraint that the OS only allows dropping of
file types specified in the Info.plist file.

In the standalone setting in the IDE you can define 1 document type for
your standalone. The XML for that type in the plist file can then be
copied to define additional types as you like.


On 2/23/2015 2:50 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> I found the following handler on the forum for launching an OSX application
> when an associated file is double clicked
>
> on appleEvent pClass,pID
>
>    local tFiles
>
>    if pClass is "aevt" and pID is "odoc" then
>       request appleEvent data
>       put it into tFiles ## files OS is requesting your application opens,
> one per line
>       if tFiles is not "not found" and tFiles is not empty then
>          openDB line 1 of tFiles
>       end if
>    else
>       pass appleEvent
>     end if
>
> end appleEvent
>
> I put that into the script of the first card of my application's main
> stack. openDB is a handler in my main stack script.
>
> Built the standalone and associated a file with my application then double
> clicked it.  My application opened but did not open the file.  I added some
> answer commands to the appleEvent handler including one right at the
> beginning, re-built the application and tried again but nothing was
> displayed.
>
> It appears the apple event is never reaching my application.  Maybe the
> code I found is out of date somehow?  This is on Yosemite.
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