Quite true, but in this case, I am pretty sure that is not what is happening. If my assumptions about what the code below is doing are correct, it will provide the debugging information I need.
Fortunately, I have physical access to the machine where the problem is occurring and can verify they haven't done something like you did with TextMate. Thanks again. On Jul 17, 2010, at 2:18 AM, John Joyce wrote: > You might be going about it wrong. > A user can, in Finder's Get Info window, set the application they prefer for > all files of a given "type". > On my system I've set some text file types to always open in TextMate, for > example. > TextMate the app provides custom file icons for all the file types it can > save in. > After making this change in Finder's get info windows, all files of that type > will have an icon that has been provided by TextMate and registered with a > UTI. > > At the end of the day, a user or another UTI more specific than yours may set > the file icon regardless of what you want it to be. > > On Jul 16, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: > >> >> On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Walker wrote: >> >>> On 7/16/2010 2:45 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: >>>> Thanks, but I wasn't specific enough. >>>> >>>> What I am looking for is something like this: >>>> >>>> $WhoProvidedIcon /Path/To/file.myex >>>> >>>> UTI: com.myapplication.document >>>> PLIST: /path/to/myapplication.app/Contents/Info.plist >>>> ICON: /path/to/myapplication.app/Contents/Resources/BaseDoc.icns >>> >>> Perhaps you could get some of this information by first using >>> UTTypeCreateAllIdentifiersForTag to get the possible UTIs for the >>> extension, and then passing each UTI to UTTypeCopyDeclaringBundleURL and >>> UTTypeCopyDeclaration. >> >> Gotta love it when you learn about functions you were unaware of previously. >> >> I don't think I need UTTypeCreateAllIdentifiersForTag....NSWorkspace should >> give me the UTI for the file. >> >> So, This code is probably all I need: >> >> NSString* uti = [ws typeOfFile:@"/Users/egorr/Desktop/file.vwx" >> error:&error]; >> >> NSLog( @"UTI: %@", uti ); >> NSLog( @"UTI localized description: %@", [ws >> localizedDescriptionForType:uti] ); >> NSLog( @"UTI error description: %@",[error localizedDescription] ); >> >> NSURL* utiDeclarationURL = (NSURL*)UTTypeCopyDeclaringBundleURL( >> (CFStringRef)uti ); >> >> NSLog( @"UTI declaration URL: %@", utiDeclarationURL ); >> >> NSDictionary* utiDeclaration = (NSDictionary*)UTTypeCopyDeclaration( >> (CFStringRef)uti ); >> >> NSLog( @"UTI declaration: %@", utiDeclaration ); >> >> (Also gotta love the toll-free bridging...) >> >> Of course, I'll edit the obtaining the uti to take a path from the command >> line. >> >> Doesn't quite give me the path to the icon, but does get me to the >> application which the declaration came from for the UTI. >> >> As long as all of this matches what the OS will do, then I should be good to >> go for my situation. >> >> p.s. Yes, I know that the icon for a file may not be an icon at all, but an >> image provided by a Quick Look plugin...but in my case, I know that it is an >> icon and not something provided by a Quick Look plugin. But, it would be >> interesting if one could determine exactly where the image for the file was >> coming from. The code above won't do that. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jjoyce%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to jjo...@apple.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
