Re: gnustep make on MacOSX

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Wolfgang,

> > 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.

Thanks so much for your help. This works like a charm!! :-)

Thanks a lot,

 Andreas