[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Mac OS X Finder support

[Chris Roccati]

On 7 Nov 2004, at 03:54, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
> One suggestion, please consider calling the option macosx_wrapper, 
> since that is what it is. Technically it's not Finder support, as i 
> can use open/launch to launch any os x Application. It's an OS X gui 
> wrapper for a unix
> executable, and we have many of those. The Finder has nothing to do 
> with it at all (and I'm also in favor of leaving it off by default).

You can lauch any os x application, but having it receive parameters is 
a different story; you can neither set an arbitrary unix application to 
be the default application for a filetype, nor you can drag a file on a 
unix application icon. This is *NOT* a wrapper, like MPlayerOSX, it is 
simply a parameter parsing function to support the conventions used by 
the finder (the new code is used only when the application is launched 
by the finder or by the Launch Services), in fact it has *NO GUI AT 
ALL*. It was written as a wrapper for the main() function to better 
cooperate with the other ports.