Re: Connecting file extensions to applications

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> > how can I make my app to start automatically and open a document file 
> > when I doubleclick on a file with a specific extension, e.g. 
> > *.project? I have a file CustomInfo.plist in the project directory 
> > and listed all document types.
>
> It should be as simple as installing the app in one of the standard 
> locations, then running make_services.
> I would assume GWorkspace honors the standard mechanism ... but just 
> in case, you could try using gopen to open the file without having 
> GWorkspace running/available.

NSWorkspace is supposed to setup a dictionary extPreferences in 
+initialize. This is done by reading the file .GNUstepExtPrefs. 
However, this file does not exist (is not created by make_services)!?

How is this supposed to work?

Regards,

  Andreas