While I'm honored by the loyalty, you really do get most of the
functionality from Finder now.
Zip, tar, tgz, tar.gz are all handled with Finder, and better than
OpenUp ever did.
the source the tools that OpenUp depended on is spread far and wide. I
never could find it all again, and most of it is for legacy formats.
Finally, I'm not confident that the string passing to the tasks is up
to a real security scrutiny test. In fact, I'd bet it isn't.
There are better apps for this in the modern world. BetterZip is the
one I've looked at.
Looking inside zip/tar/tar.gz files (something OpenUp never did) would
best be accomplished by writing a QuickLook plug-in (which probably
exists.
Aside from the task passing aspects.... the code handled preferences
in the 'old fashioned' way (not bindings). when I revamped the app for
a presentation 6 years ago or so, I was able to eliminate a huge
amount of code. something on the order of 80% of the preference
handling code. So even that aspect of the OpenUp code may not be
useful. Here are the slides that discuss the conversion http://homepage.mac.com/sanguish/ORA-2003/ControllerTalk-ORA2003.pdf
.
Code features wise, you'd want to look at things like NSOperation,
providing a real UI, etc..
So, start anew if you really want to something else. But thanks again
for the love. :-)
On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Giulio Cesare Solaroli wrote:
Hello,
I may sound a little bit old fashioned, but I still much prefer Scott
Anguish's (of Stepwise.com fame) OpenUp.app application
(http://www.stepwise.com/Software/OpenUp/) instead of the MacOS X
built in Archive Utility (the default application used to open zip,
tar, etc...).
OpenUp.app has been languishing in the last few years, and it embeds
PowerPC only versions of the core tools used to do the actual
processing; this resulted in much slower performances on Leopard.
Snow Leopard still has Rosetta, but only as a extra package available
as a custom install option.
Is there anyone interested in helping fixing the XCode project file
and rebuild the whole application for Snow Leopard? :D
Scott was so nice to leave the source code here:
http://homepage.mac.com/sanguish/OpenUp/
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