Re: Mail.app Bundle question

Hi Kevin,

On Jun 10, 2004, at 16:21, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote:

> Perhaps a note in the distribution directory might be helpful?  The
> readme.txt file just says "Mac OS X"

Yep. Perhaps the readme should be updated :)

> Nifty.  Too bad it doesn't work with Panther :-/

Oh, well...

> If I get some time, I'd be happy to take a swing at it, although I've
> never done Mac programming, and from what I gather, the documentation 
> on
> writing Mail bundles is scarce and unofficial . . . (please correct me 
> if
> I'm wrong).

Yep. To follow an old tradition started by NeXTMail [1], the Mail.app 
internals where never documented even though people have hacked mail 
bundles since the dawn of time [2] :)

That said, the Obj-C runtime is pretty much self-documenting, so it's 
just a question of generating the right headers to get your foot in the 
door. Classdump [3] and MagicHat [4] can help with that.

This looks like a great first Cocoa project :)

Cheers,

R.

[1] http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4698/brochure/nextmail.htm
[2] http://www.tikouka.net/mailapp/
[3] http://www.codethecode.com/Projects/class-dump/index.html
[4] http://homepage.mac.com/petite_abeille/MagicHat/



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