[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Q: How To Tell The Finder To Launch An App With A Doc?

[Mark Roseman]

> One minor problem remains: with this interface you have to specify the fsspec
> or full pathname of the application you want to launch, while what you would 
> really want is to specify either the 4-char creator or (possibly) the filenam
> e 
> only of the application. Does anyone have code to browse through the finders'
> desktop database to get from creator to full pathname?

i'll send you code to dig the application out of the desktop database
separately.  but you'll also want to keep the existing functionality,
as it lets you "double-click" on a document and have it launch its
app, not only just launch an app.

mark

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