In Germany, a developer called MetaView has almost godlike celebrity value in the Palm community – and indeed, some of his applications have turned out to be extremely impressive.
One of the reasons why he really is pretty cool is that he also runs a blog where he shares interesting code snippets on a more or less regular basis. His latest victim is file handling:
Have you ever tried the menu item “Default Apps” (German: Standardanwendungen) in the App Launcher’s menu? Then you know that apps can register for certain file/mime types. But how to do it isn’t documented yet. According to this forums thread one might expect to get some documentations about it rather soon. Until then, Jay Canuck and the WebOSInternals-Team both using some luna-send commands to perform the file type registration for their applications: Internalz and Preware. Translating this luna-sends into proper service calls was easy and looks like this:
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Hit the link below to find out more:
http://metaviewsoft.de/wordpress/?p=443
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