Hi Ken and all,

I would use the Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI), look at the ADC:
"ADC Home > Reference Library > Guides > Carbon > Data Management > Uniform Type Identifiers Overview >".

I have used the UTI several times to identify image files and it worked well.

HTH,
Oleg




On Jun 29, 2008, at 01:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi

I'm writing a "KFile" class that encapsulates a bunch of file operations that are spread out over several Cocoa and Carbon classes and want to have a couple of testing methods such as "isImageFile", "isMusicFile", "isTextFile" etc. I'm trying to avoid hard coding HFS types and/or file extensions and have it perform these tests much like the Finder does in it's search window where you can specify file kind as "Images", "Music", "Text", "Movies" etc. Is there any any built in way, in either Cocoa or Carbon, to get a list of types that correspond to say "Images" or perform a test on a specific file that returns true for "Images"?

Thanks for any help


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