Launching Carbon App in Classic

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reaverreaver
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
How can I force a carbon application to launch in the Classic environment?



Every method I use to launch the app causes it to execute in the Mac OS X environment ( 10.3.8 ). Normally this is good, but I really need to launch the app in the Classic environment. Any ideas?



Thanks in advance.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    rara Posts: 623member
    Select the app in the Finder, choose File > Get Info... and there should be a place to select where it launches.
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    reaverreaver Posts: 3member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ra

    Select the app in the Finder, choose File > Get Info... and there should be a place to select where it launches.





    The first thing I did was look in the Get Info menu options. As far as I can tell, there is no option available to force application launch in Classic mode.



    The search continues. Any more ideas. \ \
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    rara Posts: 623member
    If that's the case, then the application can not be launched in Classic.
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    mr. hmr. h Posts: 4,870member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ra

    If that's the case, then the application can not be launched in Classic.



    Ra is correct. A carbon app that can be launched in classic will have a tick box in its get info window that reads "Open in the Classic environment". Are you sure that the app is Carbon?



    Having asked that, you should be aware that just because an app is a carbon app, that doesn't mean it'll be OS 9 compatible. MS Office is carbon, for example, but since it has been built as Mach-O will not run under OS 9.
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