Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!tim
From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help! 2 Mac programming questions
Message-ID: <5775@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 28 Oct 88 02:14:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.5775
References: <31482@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <31482@bbn.COM> dtani@BBN.COM (Dan Tani) writes:
>1) How do I get an application to launch and then open a data file by double
>clicking on that data file?

The application has to have a bundle, with all that entails (version resource,
bundle bit set, FREFs) and the bundle has to refer to an FREF for the file
type of the doucment file.  Also, the creator of the document has to be the
same as the creator of the application.

>2) How do I animate cursors (like the spinning watch).  I looked into
>the finder and found the cursors in a resource type acur or something
>like that.  I have kludged an animated cursor by toggling from cursur
>to cursor, but I have to make expicit calls to toggle.  Any way to
>have the OS toggle for me?

Nope, just keep doing it yourself.  No OS hooks for it.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to
 lovers of serious literature.  From Prometheus to the Wagnerian Siegfried,
 some enemy of the gods, unterrified champion of those oppressed by them, has
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