Re: gnustep make and linking applications to extensions

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Jun 2008, at 17:46, Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > does anyone know a gnustep example application that builds under  
> > MacOS with gnustep make and that correctly sets up the necessary  
> > plist files (or whatever has to be done) to link file extensions to  
> > application so that a doubleclick on a document file in Finder  
> > automatically lauches the corresponding application?
> >
> > I have written an app that should act as an editor for *.project  
> > files. The linkage works under MacOSX 10.2 and GNUstep but not on  
> > Leopard. Any idea?
>
>
> I have found the following file in the application wrapper
>
>         pico /Applications/InterfaceBuilder.app/Contents/Info.plist
>
> {
>  NOTE = "Automatically generated, do not edit!";
>  NSExecutable = "InterfaceBuilder";
>  NSMainNibFile = "";
>  GSMainMarkupFile = "";
>  CFBundleIconFile = "InterfaceBuilder.icns";
>  NSPrincipalClass = "NSApplication";
> }
>
> I modified that as follows
>
> {
>  NOTE = "Automatically generated, do not edit!";
>  NSExecutable = "InterfaceBuilder";
>  NSMainNibFile = "";
>  GSMainMarkupFile = "";
>  CFBundleIconFile = "InterfaceBuilder.icns";
>  NSPrincipalClass = "NSApplication";
>  NSRole = "Editor";
>  NSTypes = (
>    {
>      NSUnixExtensions = ( "smib" );
>      NSIcon = "nibfile.tiff";
>    }
>   );
> }
>
> and Finder.app immediately had the connection between smib files and  
> InterfaceBuilder.app. Great!
>
> However, this file is overwritten and reverted to its original state  
> when I do "make install". What file do I have to create in the  
> project directory and what do I have to add to GNUmakefile to let  
> gnustep make generate Info.plist as indicted above?

XXXInfo.plist where XXX is the application name.