Re: gnustep make on MacOSX

[Wolfgang Lux]

Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am preparing migration from MacOSX 10.2.8 (Power PC) to MacOSX  
> 10.5.2 (Intel) and have problems building apps with gnustep make on  
> this new platform. I have an app that is supposed to edit  
> *.sproject files.  I have Info-gnustep.plist and CustomInfo.plist with
>
> ...
> NSTypes = (
>      {
>         NSName = "sproject";
>         NSHumanReadableName = "sproject File";
>         NSUnixExtensions = ("sproject");
>         NSDOSExtensions = ("sproject");
>         NSRole = Editor;
>         NSIcon = "projfile.tiff";
>       },
> ...
>
> I have also tried to copy and adopt /Applications/TextEdit.app/ 
> Contents/Info.plist to my /Applications/InterfaceBuilder/Contents/ 
> Info.plist with no success. How can I make gnustep make to generate  
> MacOSX apps that are recognized by Finder.app as editors for given  
> document types (*.smib in my case)?

Replace
  NSTypes          -> CFBundleDocumentTypes
  NSName           -> CFBundleTypeName
  NSUnixExtensions -> CFBundleTypeExtensions
  NSRole           -> CFBundleTypeRole
  NSIcon           -> CFBundleTypeIconFile
There is no direct equivalent for NSHumanReadableName. Instead use  
InfoPlist.strings to provide an appropriate localization for  
CFBundleTypeName, e.g.,
  "sproject" = "sproject File";
in English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings,
 "sproject" = "sproject Datei";
in German.lproj/InfoPlist.strings. Also forget about NSDOSExtensions;  
there is no equivalent in OS X. The NSTypes keys were never  
officially supported by OS X and Apple apparently has dropped support  
for these legacy keys.

Also keep in mind that gnustep-make merges the contents of file  
XXXInfo.plist into the final Info.plist file, where XXX is the name  
of the application. So unless your application is called Custom, the  
contents of file CustomInfo.plist is just ignored.

Wolfgang