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Vince - Easily set internet protocol helper applications
A major problem I have has to do with Flash Standalone projectors. I develop a lot of Flash Standalone Application projectors for clients. These application all have the same type/creator as the stock standalone Flash Player which I use frequently to view swf files (not projectors. The projectors are basically the Flash Player with an SWF file embedded. What annoys me is that whenever I double-click on an SWF (Flash document) to open it in the Flash Player - it always launched the last projector I launched. No matter how many times I tell the Finder to ALWAYS use the Flash Player, it forgets. Its actually not forgetting - its really more a problem with Macromedia allowing the Projectors to have the same type/creator as the Flash Player itself. It is extremely annoying!!!
Solution for OS 9
I don't know for OS X, but the incredible Default App does exactly what you want: drag files to the left pane, drag apps to the right pane, choose a pair in those lists and Boom®, any file with that creator/type will open in the app you specified. No changing the file's creator code, no extension, no control panel, no reboot, nothing, it's magic.
hmm, maybe not
Now that I think of it, Default App might not solve your kind of problem since it probably relies on the apps creator codes.
Semi-solution for OS X
I doubt there is something as good as Default App for OS X, but you could at least save yourself trouble by changing every projectors' creator codes (of course patching Flash once and for all would be better, maybe it's possible somehow).
Vince - Easily set internet protocol helper applications
Aha, finally someone else has seen this. I never got as far as you did towards figuring out what was causing it--I just put up with the fact that, every time I launched an SWF I was working on, a certain SWF I had made in the past would open, too, behind the one I actually wanted to see. |
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