Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython on Snow Leopard

[Aaron T. <hpu...@gm...>]

I upgraded to Snow Leopard today. I've noticed one big improvement in  
the behavior of VIDLE that is a reflection of the new OS. In the past,  
Mac OS used a document creator code to identify the application that  
created a document. It used some hierarchy of rules to determine which  
application should open a document. The rules included the document  
creator code and the file extension and default settings. An excellent  
article about this issue and changes made to Snow Leopard is at:

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10537

But here's a summary. As of yesterday, my python files would sometimes  
open in BBedit, IDLE, or VIDLE. I had tried to set them to all open in  
VIDLE, but evidently I did not set this properly. Anyway, the problem  
had to do with the fact that some py files were created in BBedit,  
some were created in IDLE, and some were created recently in VIDLE.

Because Snow Leopard no longer looks at the document creator code, all  
of my .py files are now opening in VIDLE. I actually like this change  
to  Snow Leopard because I want to have all of my files with a certain  
extension open in the same application. However, some long-time Mac  
users are lamenting this change.

In this regard, I am now finally content in writing python programs in  
VPython. (In the past, I exclusively used BBedit as my editor and ran  
the programs from the command line.)

Aaron


On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Joe Heafner wrote:

> Over the weekend, I upgraded one of my MacBook Pros to Snow Leopard.
> FYI, VPython under Python 2.6.x seems to be working perfectly. Has
> anyone else tried it and found any problems?
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> Joe Heafner (follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/heafnerj)
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