On 19 Sep 2014, at 7:43 pm, Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com> wrote: > Long ago, in the 1990s, I remember there was some web page on Apple’s server > that let you register a four-character type code, for either type or creator. > I’ve been trying to find it lately. I sometimes found references that could > be it, but following the link either went to the Apple Developer search page > that Apple uses for resource-not-found errors or went to the UTI guide, > neither of which help. > > Is there a version of the page still around? I want to use a vanity creator > code in my Info.plist, but I want to ensure uniqueness if the code is still > used for matching. If the code is ignored nowadays, can I put a vanity value > there, or do I have to keep it “????”? I noticed (due to work in another > thread) that Safari has a creator code (“sfri”), and I think TextEdit reuses > TeachText/SimpleText’s creator code (“ttxt”).
AFAIK, those codes are not used anywhere by OS X, and you can put what you like there. In theory the code might be used by a Carbon app running in a very old version of Mac OS (e.g. Classic environment or pre OS-X) but I expect you can count the number of those systems still running on the fingers of one hand. Certainly registering codes is no longer done, so I doubt there's any way to do it. Maybe there's a dust-laden cobweb strewn room somewhere in Apple's basement, long forgotten, where a lonely phone rings whenever someone tries to register a creator code, but the guy that used to answer it has long since died and nobody's noticed yet. --Graham _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
