Re: how do I make sure a certain app opens a file without using openFile: withApplication:?

FROM : Alan Smith
DATE : Fri Jun 30 16:37:10 2006

Sherm: Yes, that's the way I'm doing it now.

Glenn: That seems to have the same affect as NSWorkspace's openFile:
withApplication:.

:(

Thanks guys but I'm afraid the problem is still unsolved.
Alan

On 6/29/06, Sherm Pendley <<email_removed>> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Alan Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I need to open a pilot for the EV series without using openFile:
> > withApplication:. If I use that it doesn't work properly, if I use
> > openFile: it works great. The only problem is that I need to make sure
> > that the specified copy of the EV opens the pilot. I have my app copy
> > the EV game and manage the pilots and plugins for it. So I want my
> > app's copy of the EV to open, not the another copy of the EV that
> > could be on disk somewhere.
> >
> > How do I open a file with an app without using openFile:
> > withApplication:?
>
> Have you tried passing the full path to your app bundle as the second
> parameter?
>
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>
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>



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