Re: Doc kind from extension

On Jun 12, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: Will this still be available in Snow Leopard? The only people who can answer that are under NDA, but... Why wouldn't it be available, unless it's been deprecated for years? Nick Zitzmann

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I would hope so! Neither of those functions are marked as deprecated in the docs, so they're not going anywhere soon. -Sidney On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: > Sidney thanks, > > Will this still be available in Snow Leopard? > > Michael > On 11 juin 09, at 18:17, Sidney San

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Sidney thanks, Will this still be available in Snow Leopard? Michael On 11 juin 09, at 18:17, Sidney San Martín wrote: How about this? CFStringRef UTI = UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension, CFSTR("pdf"), NULL); NSString *name = [(NSString*)UTTypeCopyDescription(

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On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Sidney San Mart?n wrote: That'll work in most cases, but as discussed in http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Nov/msg00642.html anything that Preview can open will just return Preview Document for that call. I just double-checked - I have an app that

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UTIs will get you there. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.co

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That'll work in most cases, but as discussed in http://lists.apple.com/archives/carbon-dev/2007/Nov/msg00642.html anything that Preview can open will just return Preview Document for that call. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: > > I missed the earlier part of this discussion,

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How about this? CFStringRef UTI = UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension, CFSTR("pdf"), NULL); NSString *name = [(NSString*)UTTypeCopyDescription(UTI) autorelease]; CFRelease(UTI); // name is now "Portable Document Format (PDF)" -Sidney On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:47 A

Re: Doc kind from extension

On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: Unfortunately all I can feed it with is the file extension Any other idea? Isn't there a mapping plist between extension and Kind that exists somewhere? I missed the earlier part of this discussion, but does LSCopyKindStringForTypeIn

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: > Any other idea? Isn't there a mapping plist between extension and Kind that > exists somewhere? You might want to read this document: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_intro/underst

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Unfortunately all I can feed it with is the file extension Any other idea? Isn't there a mapping plist between extension and Kind that exists somewhere? Michael On 11 juin 09, at 16:09, Graham Cox wrote: On 11/06/2009, at 11:50 PM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: Anyone knows how to get the s

Re: Doc kind from extension

On 11/06/2009, at 11:50 PM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote: Anyone knows how to get the system doc kind from a given extension. Not from a file, or a file path for that matter, but just from an extension. Like giving "pdf" and receiving "Portable Document Format (PDF). I've tried NSString * theTes

Doc kind from extension

Anyone knows how to get the system doc kind from a given extension. Not from a file, or a file path for that matter, but just from an extension. Like giving "pdf" and receiving "Portable Document Format (PDF). I've tried NSString * theTest = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]