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- From: jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)
- Subject: Re: rSounds -- How to play them?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:03:39 GMT
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- >Finder Extensions are INITS. If you want them available all the time (not
- >just while in the Finder), put them in your System.Setup folder.
-
- Wrong.
-
- Finder extensions can be a number of things. They just have to be in memory at
- the same time as Finder. Finder extensions can be inits (permanent), NDA's,
- CDA's, and Control Panels. An application _could_ even leave some code in
- memory that acts as a Finder extension. Finder extensions even have their own
- filetype (OMF load file, I think auxtype 1); this is intended for extensions in
- the FinderExtras folder, but might also be for System.Setup; I forget.
-
- The init filetype happens to be the most suitable for something that is only a
- Finder extension because it has no interface/special format, whereas NDA's and
- control panels do. Plus, NDA's and cdevs are typically used to package an
- interface, whereas Finder extensions typically use the Finder's Extras menu and
- the Finder itself for their interface.
-
- eg: EgoEd and ControlPanel are both extensions. EgoEd will open textual files
- double clicked in Finder and ControlPanel will open control panels. I'm not
- sure if the Sound control panel plays double clicked sounds; if it doesn't, it
- would be very easy to write something that "redirects" double clicks on sound
- files to it.
-
-
- --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
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