Questions about Standalone Applications Settings

[reelstuff]

I have a couple of things that I have been wondering about with regard to the form on the MAC section for



Is the question marks some kind of place holder or does this have something to do with the reason you get a warning on some systems that have virus protections, just curious, because I noticed that when testing the engine output on windows you get a warning about how the software may not be safe to install. Just curious if there this field has some documentation somewhere in the docs,

Second question,



In the Bundle identifier it appears, to be com..zensoft is that the usual method of determining a bundle identifier or can that be edited?

Thanks in advance for any feedback on this

Tim

[Mark]

Hi Tim,

The question marks indicate that the application has no signature. Actually, creator code is a better name for it. This doesn't mean much if your application has no documents, but if your application does create documents then you can use the creator code to tell Mac OS and Mac OS X that it was your application that created those documents. On Mac OS X, you can also use file extensions. When you double-click a document in Mac OS X, the OS searches a programme with a matching creator code and tells the application to open that file. If your file doesn't have a creator code but only an extension, then the OS will use the default application, which may not be the application that created the file.

You must change the bundle identifier. You should not leave it as it is. Usually, it has the form xyz.company.product. On Mac, it is not uncommon to create additional preferences files with file names like xyz.company.product.preferences. This way, you can quickly find all files for one specific company or product.

Also, if you have a website, you can use your domain name for the first two parts of the bundle identifier, thereby making sure that no other company uses the same identifier.

Best,

Mark

[reelstuff]

That I can understand, thank you for that explanation, I can see how it can be used very interesting stuff thanks again.