MacCreator and MacType have been depreciated by Apple. Don't bother with them. Most of your files don't have them any more. Mac OS X uses extensions. Although Mac OS X supports Typecodes, things get confusing when both types and extensions are used. Types also don't work on volumes which don't support them, so they are simply not as reliable.
Please note that I am a tad biased, as I primarily develop for the web where (like every OS except Mac) extensions are the only way to determine file type, so I've become in the habit of extensioning everything. So anyway, my best advice is just don't care. -- Thom McGrath, <http://www.thezaz.com/> "Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily." - Johann Freidreich Von Schiller On Apr 18, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Carlo Rubini wrote: > That's not the problem. Problem being: what should be the > MacCreator/MacType of a file of a given extension (or MIME type)? > Once we could know it from a call to the Internet Conf. File; so, > according to the user's settings, for .html files we could get > MSIE, MOSS and so on, for .jpg files we could get ogle or GKON, etc > etc. and the user would be happy to see his/her downloaded files > being assigned the right icon and opening in the expected application. > > And now? Should we let the Finder do the job for us (a la Windows), > setting the right MacCreator and macType of downloaded files? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
