Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
I have found an undocumented api to do this. I think this api is not opened to the public because of the security reason. Satoshi On 2009/07/31, at 22:00, MATSUMOTO Satoshi wrote: Dear Jerry Krinock, On 2009/07/31, at 21:43, Jerry Krinock wrote: Activate Finder. Select a subject document file. In main menu click File Get Info. In the Info Window which appears, click Open with... and if desired click the Change All button. Thank you for your kind advice. :-) I want to do this programmatically. Satoshi - Satoshi Matsumoto sato...@mac.com 816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802 ___ 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/satoshi%40mac.com This email sent to sato...@mac.com - Satoshi Matsumoto sato...@mac.com 816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802 ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On Aug 2, 2009, at 6:00 PM, MATSUMOTO Satoshi sato...@mac.com wrote: I have found an undocumented api to do this. Then please don't use it. :) There is no guarantee that undocumented API will continue to function on any previous, future, or even current version of the OS. I think this api is not opened to the public because of the security reason. Sounds like a good enough reason to me. I wouldn't want some rogue app associating itself with whatever files it pleased. Remember the fiasco when QuickTime, Real Player, and WMP all tried this on Windows? --Kyle Sluder ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
(Not sure why this didn't get sent to the list the first time round, but here it is for the Google bots to pick up) The place to look is the Launch Services Reference, in particular the LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType() function. I haven't used the setter functions myself, but it looks reasonable. Hope that helps. Harry http://inquisitivesoftware.com/ On 31 Gorff 2009, at 14:00, MATSUMOTO Satoshi wrote: Dear Jerry Krinock, On 2009/07/31, at 21:43, Jerry Krinock wrote: Activate Finder. Select a subject document file. In main menu click File Get Info. In the Info Window which appears, click Open with... and if desired click the Change All button. Thank you for your kind advice. :-) I want to do this programmatically. Satoshi - Satoshi Matsumoto sato...@mac.com 816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802 ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On Aug 2, 2009, at 20:09, Harry Jordan wrote: The place to look is the Launch Services Reference, in particular the LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType() function. I haven't used the setter functions myself, but it looks reasonable. Hope that helps. My interpretation was the the OP wants to set it for a single (document) file, not change the application for all files of the type, and I don't see a Launch Services function for *that*. Presumably the Finder does this by storing something in the file's metadata, that doesn't involve Launch Services at all (or perhaps only via private API). If that's so, there might be a way to do it via AppleScript, but I'll leave it to those who know something about that to comment. ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On 31.07.2009, at 21:41, MATSUMOTO Satoshi sato...@mac.com wrote: I want to do this programmatically. The direct answer to this question is very easy - it's impossible. Why? Take a look here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2017.html#Section3 Nevertheless, if I understand it correctly, you need to create a situation, when your app will be shown within the Open With menu for appropriate file type, after user has installed your app on his/her computer. If this is the case, then all what you need to do is the next: - provide appropriate info.plist with your app bundle; - place your app into Applications folder (with app installer's help). I did it manually (the second part) and it works without any problems. Going ahead, a question raises, how to make our great app to be the default application for this file type? First of all read the topic, next to the above mentioned. Then... really I never did it yet. As I believe, a specific API function is required here. I never tried it yet, though I will need to resolve the same problem soon. Therefore I'd like to ask you to let me know, if you'll have any success here. Thanks. ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:40 AM, 慧 松本 sato...@mac.com wrote: I want to change the name of the app used to open the file. You want to actually change the name of the application itself? Sorry, that's not yours to touch. The user might not even have the rights to make this modification (non-admin user, for example). Or do you want to choose a different application to associate with the file? --Kyle Sluder___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
Kyle Sluder, thank you for your response. I want to choose a different application to associate with the file. Satoshi On 2009/07/31, at 16:53, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:40 AM, 慧 松本 sato...@mac.com wrote: I want to change the name of the app used to open the file. You want to actually change the name of the application itself? Sorry, that's not yours to touch. The user might not even have the rights to make this modification (non-admin user, for example). Or do you want to choose a different application to associate with the file? --Kyle Sluder - Satoshi Matsumoto sato...@mac.com 816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802 ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On 2009 Jul 31, at 01:02, MATSUMOTO Satoshi wrote: I want to choose a different application to associate with the file. Off-topic but, oh well, you wouldn't have known Activate Finder. Select a subject document file. In main menu click File Get Info. In the Info Window which appears, click Open with... and if desired click the Change All button. The system's Launch Services database is sometimes kind of stubborn, though. If you've changed any of the UTI information in the app's Info.plist, you may have to rebuild and relaunch the subject application a couple times before the new setting starts working. If all else fails, delete the old application and restart. As a last resort, rebuild the Launch Services database, but you're going to lose all your personal settings for other apps. In Leopard, use this Terminal command: System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r - domain local -domain system -domain user ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
Dear Jerry Krinock, On 2009/07/31, at 21:43, Jerry Krinock wrote: Activate Finder. Select a subject document file. In main menu click File Get Info. In the Info Window which appears, click Open with... and if desired click the Change All button. Thank you for your kind advice. :-) I want to do this programmatically. Satoshi - Satoshi Matsumoto sato...@mac.com 816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802 ___ 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
Re: How to set the name of open-with application for a specific file?
On 2009 Jul 31, at 06:00, MATSUMOTO Satoshi wrote: I want to do this programmatically. I don't know if there are API to do this programatically or not. Search Xcode documentation for functions that Start With LS. ___ 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
