Re: Question

FROM : Mike Ferris
DATE : Wed Jan 08 21:16:46 2003

I don't understand...  you can rename app bundles.  I just tried with a
couple to be sure.  As long as the app's Info.plist has a
CFBundleExecutableName key in it, the name of the app wrapper does not
matter.  (If it does not have that key in the Info.plist then the
assumption is that the binary has the same name as the wrapper and
renaming the wrapper will break it.)  Apps built by PB will, by
default, have the CFBundleExecutableName key.

Also, apps that use the bundle API to locate their resources and other
stuff within their bundles should not care what the bundles name is or
where it is installed.

Perhaps you are trying to rename system applications?  Depending on
what kind of user account you have, you may not have permission to do
this.  When I am logged in normally (to a non-admin account), I cannot
rename TextEdit or Mail, etc...  But I can sure rename apps that I
myself installed.

Can you be more specific about what does not work for you?

Mike


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> Could somebody please tell me why I cannot rename an open application
> bundle in Mac OS X? I see no logic in this whatsoever. One of the new
> annoyances with Mac OS X.
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