Mac Change All no longer works (again)

BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax Bug Reports/Mac Change All no longer works (again)

Yes, I can confirm this bug! I have the same problem. It is more than just a little bit annoying because it makes opening files a pain in the you know what! Double-clicking of course does not work, but it is also much harder to use "Open with" since OS X does not recognize MaxIDE as capable of opening ".bmx" files. They don't show up as recommended.

The problem is caused by the Info.plist (inside the MaxIDE app). There is no file association data. I hacked it by adding the relevant xml (using Property List Editor), but that didn't work very well either for some reason.

When we are at this problem, I would like to suggest a more document-like icon for source files so that they are not as easily confused with the bins. I have double-clicked the wrong file several times.

An alternative to using MaxIDE on Mac OS X is to edit source in TextWrangler (it is free) and compile using bmk from Terminal. That is what I'm using at the moment. At least file association can be made to work with TextWrangler.

When I'm at that, the User Guide for bmk does not list the option for building GUI applications. It is "-t gui".

Thanks in advance, BMX is a great language! I'm using it all the time for different tasks.