[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT and open document event on Mac OS X

["Carolyn MacLeod" <Carolyn_MacLeod@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Oliver.

Does the following information help you?
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/macosx/

Carolyn

"Oliver" <mopr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Dear all,
>
> I have an SWT application which I export into a Mac OS application bundle 
> (.app) with the corresponding Eclipse export wizard.
>
> Now I would like to allow users to start my application by double-clicking 
> NOT on the application icon but on a file with a certain extension.  On 
> Windows this is simple: the path of the file is passed as a command line 
> argument to the java program.  But Mac OS does not do this, but instead a 
> "open document" event is sent.  How can I catch this event when using SWT 
> ?
>
> I am aware of the following two solutions:
> (1) com.apple.eawt.Application
> (2) MRJAdapter (available at http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/mrjadapter/ )
>
> These work fine in a small test program I have created.  However, as soon 
> as I add SWT to this they both no longer work.  SWT seems to be 
> incompatible with these.
>
> Is there a way to get the path of the file on which the user 
> double-clicked when using SWT ?
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Oliver