Very good summary, thanks.
what kinds of files the application is aware of or wants to make
other applications aware of.
Which is exactly what I want to do; I need to make QuickTime Player
aware of a video-file type that I'm providing a Movie Importer
component for. I'm told that the only way
Hi all.
I'm trying to write a Movie Importer component, and I'm finding a
perplexing pile of file-association methods in the process.
The current method of file-to-application mapping is supposed to be
UTIs, but I don't think this is working for me.
I was told that to get QuickTime Player X to
Wow, I didn't realize this was such a mystery.
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On Sep 7, 2010, at 19:21, G S wrote:
Wow, I didn't realize this was such a mystery.
Perhaps not such a big mystery, but it's a treacherous conceptual area that
perhaps sensible people don't want to venture into.
It's not clear from your original post whether you know that files don't *have*
Hi Quincey. Thanks for your response.
It's not clear from your original post whether you know that files don't
*have* UTIs as metadata. They have extensions or file types as metadata, and
the translation from file metadata to UTI is handled by Launch Services after
aggregating all of the
On Sep 7, 2010, at 21:46, G S wrote:
I didn't have any entry in the Document Types list in the target's
properties. The documentation didn't mention (let alone explain) the
relationship between this list and the UTI collection in the plist. I
still don't see why you'd have both.
The
