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Re: Getting HFS file type of an application
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Re: Getting HFS file type of an application


  • Subject: Re: Getting HFS file type of an application
  • From: Steve Palmer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:32:26 -0700

Ah, LSCopyItemInfoForURL was what I was looking for but somehow I couldn't find it.
Thanks!


- Steve


On Jul 17, 2005, at 12:02pm, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

On 7/17/05, Steve Palmer <email@hidden> wrote:

Given a path to an application bundle in the /Applications folder,
how do I get the HFS file type of the application.  NSHFSTypeOfFile
requires that the path is pointing to an actual Mach executable so I
would need to drill down into Contents\MacOS to find the actual
executable. Is there an equivalent function that will work if the
path is pointing to the root of the bundle (e.g. Mail.app)?


The HFS file type of an application should always be "APPL". Also, note that going down to the actual executable and getting the type of that probably won't work, since the type/creator applies to the bundle not the executable.

To get this sort of information, you should be using Launch Services
anyway. See <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/ Reference/LaunchServicesReference/LSRReference/ chapter_1.2_section_4.html>.


 -- Finlay


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