[interfacekit] Re: BRoster::FindApp()

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:51:56 +0100 CET

"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello I should point out a related thing that can also be considered
> to be a bug in the R5 implementation.  I discovered during coding
> FileType that GetSupportingApps returns an error in this case:
> 
> 1. you have an app that handles "image"
> 2. you have some file type like "image/weird"
> 3. no application ever handled "image/weird"
> 
> The very weird part is the "ever" of #3, because if you defined an
> app to handle that type at one point and then removed it, then
> it returns B_OK. (and returns apps handling "image")

Are you sure about that? How will it then be able to open anything for 
the first time?
Do you have a step-by-step explanation on how to reproduce that bug? 
Does it show up in our implementation as well?

Bye,
   Axel.


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