Re: SWI-Prolog MacOS app
Paulo Moura <[email protected]>
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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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paulo Moura Logtalk developer Email: <mailto:[email protected]> Web: <http://logtalk.org/> -----------------------------------------------------------------