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designcraft/apps
aiongg 9fbd6d2402 Show an alert when a file can't be opened or placed (#80)
* Opening an InDesign document says to export IDML (#21)

.indd and .indt files (recognised by their published 16-byte signature)
failed to open or place with a confusing format error. They now explain
that the format is closed and how to export IDML from InDesign instead.

File › Open offers .indd and .indt files (desktop and web), and dropping
one on the window opens it like a .designcraft or .idml file. A file that
can't be opened or placed from File › Open, Place, a drop, the command
line or the control channel's app.open shows an alert with the reason, as
well as the status line.

* File open: an .indd file is an unreadable file like any other

Remove the INDD signature check and message, and .indd/.indt from the
Open filters and drop routing. The alert tests use a generic unreadable
file.

* Control channel: a failed app.open answers with the error and opens no alert

An alert waits for a click that a control client can't give. app.open
reports the error in its response, as engine.execute does; File › Open,
drops and the command line still show the alert.
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