Re: NSApplication openFiles

[Wolfgang Lux]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>> Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>>>> I think it would be a better idea to always perform
>>>>   [_listener application: self openFiles: files];
>>>> in NSApplication (even if there is only one file).
>>>> 
>>>> In GSServicesManager you could then use this code (beware I didn' test 
>>>> this):
>>> I liked your suggestion. i refined it to handle the special case of "1" 
>>> file only too. It appears to work fine, I will commit it later!
>> What is the point of a special case? If the delegate implements 
>> -application:openFiles: you should call it even if only one file is 
>> supplied. Note that a (modern) delegate might only implement 
>> -application:openFiles: but not -application:openFile: and your special case 
>> (at least as far as I understand) would break such programs.
> Current apple documentation says nothing about using "openFiles" instead of 
> "openFile". Furthermore they state "Tells the delegate to open multiple 
> files.". Multiple for me means > 1. So, at least, it is confusing and by 
> reading the spec I would understand to implement both methods and expect the 
> latter do be called only by more files. This is why I had implemented the 
> special case last week, out of the documentation. But of course only a test 
> will do.

From the 10.3 AppKit release notes:
  If the application delegate implements application:openFiles:, this method 
will be called instead of application:openFile:. Similarly, 
application:printFiles: will be called instead of application:printFile:.

Wolfgang