Use of attatchments

[James Moore]

If you would like to create aliases of files into your Outliner 
document you can control-drag them in. In this case we create an actual 
Finder aliases inside the file wrapper that should work like any other 
alias. If at some point the alias gets disassociated from the file 
you'll be prompted to resolve the alias.

As for the icons, we have little to no control over what icon is 
presented to the user. The LaunchServices facility provides us with the 
icons and the app that opens the attachments by default.

-James

On Dec 4, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 03:31:57PM -0500, Nathan L.Walls wrote:
>> Overall, I like how Omni handled this. foo.oo3 becomes a container
>> directory, similar to .app. But, one thing I don't see is a way to 
>> keep
>> the attached document and the original in sync? Is this correct? If 
>> so,
>> was it not practical to include a link (raw file path or something
>> similar to an alias) in the <attatchments /> block?
>
> If you drop a folder, you'll get a dialog box asking you if you want a
> link (URL) or a copy; I imagine that would work for other things too.
>
> I do wish OmniOutliner would use aliases instead of URLs for local
> files, though, and properly display the icon for a folder/file instead
> of the generic document icon.
>
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> Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | 
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