Le 21 avr. 07 à 13:41 Soir, Carlo Rubini a écrit: > Question is/was: is it still necessary to assign macCreator and > macType under OS 10.xxx?
I think it is not necessary (since you can choose a file, then "Always open with..." in the Finder, and files with that extensions will always open with <your choice>. I even saw cases where the MacCreator of the file was changed to the creator of <your choice>). But setting the MacCreator (which is more relevant than MacType here) is a convenient way to specify an application to open a file with. > If the answer is yes, then, as pointed out in my original post, how > can one know on the fly what should be the macCreator/macType of > any downloaded file? > > In mac OS 9 a user, in the Internet control panel, could set MOSS > as macCreator for html files and GNOK for picture files etc; and we > could call the Internet Conf file to get these values and apply > them to a downloaded file. > > Nowadays the internet conf. file can be still accessed via > declares, but since I dont know how to modify it (since the > Internet control panel has disappeared) I dont know how reliable > this call is. I wonder if these are just default values (assigned by Apple, for example) and the declares help programmers assign the correct values based on the current OS. I think, since you can access these values by declares, that it won't hurt to use them (they are certainly valid MacCreators and MacTypes). > Hence my last question (in the original post): should one forget > about assigning macCreator/macType to downloaded files? Is the > Finder doing the job for us? I'd say "no" twice. But it's my opinion, not an Apple response. > Thanks, > (special thanks to Arnauld who answered for me. In these days I > could not post any answer because my IPS was having one of its > monthly hangover). You're welcome. I was just afraid: sometimes, one can be annoyed when someone answers instead of himself. But I thought I may try to reformulate in other words. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
