Re: setting or HACKING creator codes in OS X

[Sarah]

Here are the AppleScripts I use, and the price is really good :-)
This one checks the file type & creator of a current file:
tell application "Finder"
        set tFile to choose file
        set tType to the file type of tFile
        set tCrea to the creator type of tFile
        display dialog tFile & return & tType & return & tCrea as string
end tell
And this one will make any changes:
tell application "Finder"
        set tFile to choose file
        set tType to the file type of tFile
        set tCrea to the creator type of tFile
        display dialog "Set file type to:" default answer tType
        set the file type of tFile to text returned of the result
        display dialog "Set creator type to:" default answer tCrea
        set the creator type of tFile to text returned of the result
end tell
have fun,
Sarah
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:10  pm, Brian Thomas wrote:

Hi, I've been working on a big project called If Monks had Macs 
forever. I've been going back & forth between Revolution & MetaCard 
because I had been working with Scott Raney and Tuviah on getting 
special fixes to the MetaCard engines for a bunch of QuickTime related 
issues. Thankfully they are all incorporated in Revolution 2.0. So 
I've begun reading this list, digging into MetaCard and trying to use 
the Distribution Builder. I have had some real difficulty getting the 
builder to apply the creator codes and icons in OS X as I would like. 
I put the creator code in the signature box for OS X (as well as the 
creator signature box for the OS 9) but it doesn't apply.

I'm getting really frustrated.

If there is a past thread or a guide to using it that would be nice. 
But I was hoping someone could suggest a sort of Gordian Knot 
solution. Like Mathewson's for dealing with the frustration of the 
mis-sized distribution or stand-alone builder box (just go ahead and 
fix it in MetaCard (I made it re-sizeable).

I thought I could just hack the files with an OS X version of Resedit. 
However, everything I could find that didn't cost $256 only works on 
files, not applications. I didn't try the thing that costs $256.

Is there a free or cheap way to change the creator and/or type codes 
in OS X ?



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