The current code in SDLMain.m that transforms documents opened from the
Finder into command-line arguments (introduced in revision 1.14,
2005-08-11) uses the methods -[NSString lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:] and
-[NSString getCString:maxLength:encoding:], which are only available in
Mac OS X 10.4.
Compiling this code on 10.3 produces warnings, and running it (i.e.
starting an SDL application by opening a document) leads to weird
behavior which I didn’t investigate in detail ("*** -[NSCFString
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:]: selector not recognized" is printed to the
console log, and the SDL window never opens).
The attached patch removes the offending calls and uses -[NSString
UTF8String] instead, which is available everywhere. Tested on 10.3.9,
and I see no reason why it shouldn’t also work on 10.2 and 10.4.
Two further comments:
o The comment above the -[SDLMain application: openFile:] implementation
says “You need to have a CFBundleDocumentsType section in your
Info.plist to get this message, apparently.” This is not the case in my
experience - it worked just fine with a hand-built bare-bones
application consisting only of Test.app/Contents/MacOS/test, without any
Info.plist (although you have to press the option and command keys for
such an application to accept a dragged file).
o I took the liberty of cleaning up another area of SDLMain.m: I changed
"CustomApplicationMain (argc, argv)" to "CustomApplicationMain (int
argc, char argv)". This avoids the "type of argv' defaults toint’"
warnings, and I’m not sure if leaving out the types could cause problems
on platforms where an int and a char aren’t of the same size.
-Christian
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