Re: SWI-Prolog MacOS app

Paulo Moura <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jan,

On 16/08/2013, at 13:16, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A real Prolog MacOS app is getting close to testing phase.

Nice :-)

>  One of
> the remaining issues is integration with the finder.  Below are
> some thoughts about that.  Comments from Mac users is welcome.
> 
>  - Currently, I register Prolog for .pl and .prolog files (still need
>    to figure out how to get an icon there).   More?

If more, than maybe give the option to set/unset registering of each specific extension in the application preferences.

>  - Double clicking always sends a message to the already running app,
>    while I think you want to load the file into a new instance.  So,
>    if a running app gets a file-open-event, it now runs
> 
> 	open -n -a <myself> <file>
> 
>    Does that make sense?

Could that be configure in the application preferences? Both scenarios seems sensible to me.

>  - What if you just start Prolog from the Applications folder, it
>    now starts in this directory.  That is most likely not what you
>    want.  In Windows it creates a Prolog directory under the
>    `personal' folder and starts there.  Is there a similar convention
>    for the Mac?


I would start by default in the user home directory.

Cheers,

Paulo


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