Re: making an application and type known (ProjectCenter doesn't know Gorm)

[Adam Fedor]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:21, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I have both Gorm and ProjectCenter running, and i'm trying to follow
> the tutorial that Pierre-Yves put together
> (http://www.gnustep.it/pierre-yves/index.html).
> 
> When, in ProjectCenter, i double click on an interface which has an
> extension of `gorm' (so that the first column of the browser says
> `Interfaces' and the second says, in my case, `Samp.gorm'), the gui
> puts up a panel saying "Could not open ......../Samp.gorm'.  It also
> logs a message saying "No known applications for file extension
> 'gorm'".
> 
> No doubt this means that i need to register the type `gorm'
> somehow (although it's a little mystifying why the type isn't
> known through some daemon or server, because i have Gorm
> up and running).


You might try running

make_services

manually. That's what is supposed to determine what apps register to
open a file. Perhaps it wasn't updated or it contains bad data - in
which case you might also try to remove
~/GNUstep/Library/Services/.GNUstepAppList