Re: [MACTCL] Two OSX Questions

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> 1. How do you replace the wish icon and text with the name and icon of your
> own app in the upper left?

To change the name, I currently recompile Wish Shell from the sources
(which is pretty easy), but I expect there are ways to do this without
recompilation (editing plist resources?)

To change the icon, you can use 'Get Info' in the finder and copy/paste a
new icon on top.  (Again there are other ways to do this, I'm sure).

> 2. Anyone have any ideas on how I would programatically create a
> double-clickable icon that would launch my application, pass it custom
> arguments -plus- the name of any files dropped on it?  The kind of thing
> that could be done quite easily with a windows shortcut, using the various
> ways of creating windows shortcuts programatically on the PC?  Shell scripts
> aren't double-clickable by default, so they can't be used.  Aliases don't
> seem to have the ability to pass arguments. Terminal command files don't
> allow drag and drop, as far as i can tell, and leave an ugly window up after
> executing. Apple scripts may be the answer, but I'm not sure if they can be
> compiled on the fly via a tcl script, and the arguments I need to include
> have to be customizable so the script must be created by my application.

Can you explain a little more?  What is your application (something
written in C, a command-line tool, etc)?

Where do these 'custom arguments' come from?

Anyway, I believe you can do what you want by writing an AppMain.tcl (as
explained in the Tk readme), containing something as simple as:

proc tk::mac::OpenDocument {args} {
    set customargs "-foo -bar"
    eval [list exec /path/to/myapp] $customargs $args
}

Vince.