Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Anybody using MacWorkStation? Message-ID: <21606@think.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 18:00:27 GMT References: <21441@think.UUCP> <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de> Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: ephraim@vidar.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 29 In article <144@iravcl.ira.uka.de> joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de writes: >In article <21441@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) writes: >> I'm especially interested in how well it can handle a situation such >> as the following: >> [...] >I think MWS is not the product for you. Of course you can do that, >but you'll have to write external commands to do that. I don't have any problems with that. What I'm hoping to do is to write significantly less with MWS than I would without it. >(1) your MWS application cannot have documents itself. It can process > TEXT and MacWrite documents, but there is no double-clicking. Why is this so? If I add FREFs to the bundle of my MWS application, won't that let make my own types of double-clickable documents? Or is there no internal hook to let me do my own open-document processing when these added types are opened? I'm still waiting for information that Apple Software Licensing is sending me. Once I get that, I'll post a summary of what I've learned. Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"