Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)

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

Re: Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)

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,

Re: Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, [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