Re: [jamboost] Re: OS X: creating application bundles

From: Jan Rehders (cmdkeen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-30 07:06:31

> BTW, can you explain to me what's bundle and why kind of support for 
> them
> you'd like. From what I can find at developer.apple.com, it's specific
> directory structure which is considered as single application (with 
> resources
> and the like). OTOH, bundle support in V1 does not look like that. I
> certainly miss something.

Yes, a bundle is basically a directory which contains an xml file with 
meta information about it's content. Applications should be put into 
application bundles because they won't get any window event when they 
aren't. (at least when using the carbon API). Unfortunately I currently 
don't know a way to create it using the command line. Either I lack 
searching skills or there isn't any documentation or tool ;). I tried 
to create it by hand but failed because there are some binary files 
which I could not create but which seem to be needed. My current 
workaround is taking an existing bundle and copying my executable into 
it after compiling using the stage rule.

> I'd suggest changing this to
>
> type.register JAN : jan ;
>
> You'll immediately get top-level rule called 'JAN'.

This worked fine, thank you

Jan Rehders