Re: Working with creator codes in OS X
Re: Working with creator codes in OS X
- Subject: Re: Working with creator codes in OS X
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:52:01 -0600
At 09:58 +0200 2001 08 29, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Strictly speaking, OSX doesn't use creator and file types; it could even
know nothing about them, wouldn't there be the need of compatibility with
Classic.
Mac OS X, particularly the file system(s) and the Finder, do use
creator type. some applications don't handle them right, but they
should. if you look at Finder's dictionary you'll see "creator type"
is definitely there. some files will indeed report creator type as
"missing value", but that is a normal result. setting creator type
to " " (four spaces) is the nominal way to remove the creator.
(setting it to "missing value" -- without the quotes -- will result
in a creator of 'msng', which appears to act the same as a truly
blank creator type.)
set x to choose file
tell application "Finder"
set creator type of x to " "
end tell
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steve harley email@hidden