Re: Issues with plug-in loading within Quesa.

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Oct 28, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Peter Michelsen wrote:

> We have have come across a problem in Quesa while testing. The problem 
> involves having an application ( using Quesa ) running from an AFP(OSX 
> 10.3) users desktop with an alias to a SMB share.
>
> While Quesa is loading it tries to look for plug-ins (GOOD), while it 
> is looking for  plug-ins Quesa tries to resolve any alias (FINE most 
> of the time), but should it really be doing this a application bundle 
> level on OSX.

Doing what at the bundle level?  What is a specific example of a case 
where a plugin does not get loaded when it should?

> I have listed the code section I feel should be changed or removed 
> below.

Unclear.  It looks like you listed the same piece of code twice, but 
haven't said what the problem is.

>  The other option is to have better alias resolve code.
>
> File:
> E3MacSystem.cp
>
> Function:
> void
> E3MacSystem_LoadPlugins(void)
>
> Code Section:
> 	// Find the application file
> 	if (isOnOSX)
> 		{
> 		theErr = GetProcessBundleLocation( &thePSN, &bundleFSRef );
> 		
> 		if (theErr == noErr)
> 			{
> 			theErr = FSGetCatalogInfo( &bundleFSRef, 0, NULL, NULL, &fileSpec[ 
> dirCount ], NULL );
> 			}
> 		}
> 	else
> 		{
> 		processInfo.processInfoLength = sizeof(ProcessInfoRec);
> 		processInfo.processName       = NULL;
> 		processInfo.processAppSpec    = &fileSpec[ dirCount ];
> 		
> 		theErr = GetProcessInformation(&thePSN, &processInfo);
> 		}
> 	
> 	if (theErr == noErr)
> 		++dirCount;
>
> Code Line problem:
> 	if (isOnOSX)
> 		{
> 		theErr = GetProcessBundleLocation( &thePSN, &bundleFSRef );
> 		
> 		if (theErr == noErr)
> 			{
> 			theErr = FSGetCatalogInfo( &bundleFSRef, 0, NULL, NULL, &fileSpec[ 
> dirCount ], NULL );
> 			}
> 		}
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