Open application when file double clicked

[Howard Bornstein]

Richard,

Could you (with Bernd's permission) kindly post the code that made this all
work correctly?

Thanks.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Even weirder:
>
> Offlist Bernd kindly sent an example of a stack similar to what's
> described below, but it works flawlessly.
>
> The only significant difference I could find was that his uses a custom
> document type, while I had use txt.
>
> So I went back to my test app, changed the document type from txt to a
> custom one, and now I get the odoc events both when files are dropped on
> the app to launch it and while the app is already running.
>
> This seems like a bug in the Finder more than LiveCode, some oddity in how
> AE works with well known file types.
>
> Since there doesn't appear to be any problem at all, I'm closing my bug
> report.
>
> And since there doesn't appear to be any problem at all, how did we wind
> up here?
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
>
>
>> Wierdness abounds:
>>
>> I made a standalone with this card script:
>>
>> on startup
>>     insert script of btn "fs" into front
>> end startup
>>
>>
>> This script in a button "fs":
>>
>> on appleEvent
>>     put the params &cr & the executionContexts &cr&cr after fld 1
>>     pass appleEvent
>> end appleEvent
>>
>> And that same script in the stack.
>>
>> When I double-click the resulting app, I see:
>>
>> appleEvent "aevt","oapp",""
>> button id 1007 of card id 1002 of stack "/Users/rg/Desktop/ae tester/ae
>> tester/ae tester.app/Contents/MacOS/ae tester",appleEvent,2
>>
>> appleEvent "aevt","oapp",""
>> stack "/Users/rg/Desktop/ae tester/ae tester/ae
>> tester.app/Contents/MacOS/ae tester",appleEvent,2
>>
>>
>> When I launch the app by dropping a text file onto it (I'd set it up to
>> use TEXT/txt files) I get:
>>
>> appleEvent "aevt","odoc",""
>> button id 1007 of card id 1002 of stack "/Users/rg/Desktop/ae tester/ae
>> tester/ae tester copy.app/Contents/MacOS/ae tester",appleEvent,2
>>
>> appleEvent "aevt","odoc",""
>> stack "/Users/rg/Desktop/ae tester/ae tester/ae tester
>> copy.app/Contents/MacOS/ae tester",appleEvent,2
>>
>> But I get no oapp when I launch the app with a document, and I get no
>> odoc when I launch the app without one.
>>
>> I've searched the LC scripts and this issue is different from the older
>> one I'd experienced, since the other one was consistent and caused by a
>> rev script.
>>
>> This one appears to be engine-level, in which only the first Apple event
>> is processed, and subsequent ones ignored.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this before I update my bug report?
>>
>> --
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Systems
>>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>>   ____________________________________________________________________
>>   Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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