Internet control panel recognising X apps?

[chardinej]

I run Outlook 2001 in Classic and want to force URLs to open in IE 5.1 X, not Classic IE. The usual way of doing this is to specify this in the Internet control panel under Web. When I do this and browse for IE 5.1 X, the Classic Internet control panel cannot see IE 5.1 X because it does not look like a classic app.

Can I do anything to IE 5.1 X such as change the filetype and creator to make the Internet Control Panel recognise it as an application? Any other suggestions?

[mervTormel]

i fiddled around a little in resEdit with the OS9 Internet Preferences file.

the app sig is stuffed into the helper entry for http and IE for OSX has the same type/creater, so i thought,

"What would happen if you stuffit'd all instances of the OS9 IE app? would an url reference then not find OS9 IE and then find OSX IE?"

it might just be the case of a classic app calling a classic API and finding an instance of OS9 IE before it can find OSX IE.

or, i could be completely out in the weeds.

try that and let us know your results before we go mucking around in the bowels of internet prefs with resEdit.

-mt

[Phil St. Romain]

Maybe I'm not understanding, but it seems to me that what you need to do is choose IE for X in the Internet System Preference of X. That should give you the results you're looking for. I have a few Classic apps that used to open links in IE Classic, but now open them in IE X if IE for X is open. Maybe that's part of the work-around as well.

[mervTormel]

well, raise my rent! that just might be the ticket. seems like it should be anyhow.

thanks for the nudge.

[hschickel]

The problem that you're having is that a Classic Control Panel cannot select an item inside an OSX package. (I tried aliasing ie but the control panel won't recognize an alias either.)

Luckily there is a relatively easy workarount. If IE X is open, your Classic apps will choose it if they are set to use IE 9.

Hugh

[silvasonic]

i just spoke with a guy from apple at the local apple store (lenox mall, atlanta, ga) and he assured me that deleting all browsers in classic would force outlook 2001 do open the default browser on the os x environment. i haven't tried it myself though.