I've got an app which is matching on file types, so I want the user to be able
to say "show me all the... say... MS-Word documents, or JPeg images" or
whatever. So I need to present the user with all the possible types their
system knows about, so they can select what files they are interested in.
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, j o a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: j o a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: How to get a list of all known file types?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 4:32 PM
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Chris Idou wrote:
>
> >
> > Sure, I read it. Can you see an API giving all known
> file types? Can you see a mention of human readable
> descriptions? I can't, but it wouldn't be the first
> time I have selective blindness.
>
>
> I don't know the answer to the former, but the human
> readable description would be returned by:
>
> UTTypeCopyDescription()
>
> What is the problem that you're really trying to solve
> here? It might be that there is a better way of going about
> what you're trying to do.
>
> j o a r
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