I was working on that Font Menu thing. It's hard to believe how many different ways there are to handle font menus on OS X. AppleWorks uses one way which I've got working. MS Word uses another way which I've got partially working (fonts in submenus don't work) and Indesign uses yet another way which I've got yet to figure out. They make a very custom Font Menu. I've yet to look deeply into it.
But this kind of makes me wish I had contacts at Adobe at MacBU that could assist me with these sort of things. It's a real pain in the butt to reverse engineer these things in such a way that is completely compatible and completely agnostic in regards to what application I am in. If anyone does know anyone (or is anyone) on these programmer teams, please contact me... rosyna at our company's name dot com (not dot org). Spam sucks.
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I use SpamStopper to convert my email address to codes that still work in the browser, but aren't readable normally by SpamBots.
It has a couple levels of paranoia and it seems to work well.
Posted by: Jason Anderson on June 8, 2003 1:59 PMInteresting.
I was wondering if you might know how Finder sets the global flag/bits/message to tell the System to hide file type extensions or not.
The Launch Services API to get a "display name" for a file is affected by this setting and I would really like to get the data the API promises no matter what the user may have set *for the Finder*.
Just wondering since you guys are masters at peeking inside Mac OS X and I frankly haven't the time or patience to learn gdb and go over Darwin source code.
Posted by: Neo on June 8, 2003 7:28 PMLSSetExtensionHiddenForRef/LSSetExtensionHiddenForURL in LaunchServices.h
That what you mean?
Posted by: Rosyna on June 8, 2003 10:04 PMI hate spam too. But I've found that by configuring the mailserver really tightly I've managed to get my spam count down to an average of about 1 or 2 per day. This is the total of spam messages I receive across all of my email accounts, and I think it's a pretty good tally considering that at least one of my email addresses is fairly public and plastered all over my website.
Posted by: Greg on June 8, 2003 11:15 PMWhy do you even need to do anything to the Font menus in InDesign? Adobe's included code from Type Reunion in their OS X apps, so they are already harmonized.
Posted by: Caleb Clauset on June 9, 2003 8:45 PMI can't claim to personnaly know anyone at the Mac BU, but I did learn quite a bit about who's who on the Entourage and Explorer teams by reading mailing lists, e.g. the Entourage-talk mailing list (and outlook and emailer-talk before that)
I know there are Mac Word lists out there but in my experience, there are more MVPs on them than actual developpers. Have you tried the MS newsgroups on Usenet? I remember reading that they are now more active than the mailing lists.
As for the email address thing, have you had a look at Enkoder?
Posted by: Seek on June 11, 2003 2:50 PM