On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

If the document is a file, Finder will add a 'usro' resource which contains the absolute path to the application to be used. Thanks to Alistair who pointed me to: <http://sutes.co.uk/2009/09/creator-codes-are-not-replaced.html >

So the ancient-but-elegant notion of a creator code has been thrown out, to be replaced by the use of the ancient-but-lame resource fork, as well as ancient-and-fragile hardcoded paths? :-P

—Jens

PS: The Apple folks are welcome to tell us this is off-topic, if they can tell us where else to discuss it, instead of just wishing the problem away. I ran out of patience with that sometime during the interminable Fucking NDA phase of the iPhone developer experience.

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