Re: file types and UTIs don't mix in choose file
Re: file types and UTIs don't mix in choose file
- Subject: Re: file types and UTIs don't mix in choose file
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:43:39 -0700
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:17:43 +0200, Emile Schwarz
<email@hidden> said:
>BUT, change the documentation and... itâs a feature ;)
But my point is that in that case it's a bad feature. There is no UTI for
'ttro'. So I can't include 'ttro' files in the "choose file" dialog while
taking advantage of the broad power of "public.plain-text". m.
>email@hidden wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:00:50 -0700
>> From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
>> Subject: file types and UTIs don't mix in choose file
>> To: <email@hidden>
>> Message-ID: <BF37AC52.DF59%email@hidden>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> In choose file, I'd like to specify a wide range of types. If I say
>> {"public.plain-text"} I can get a pretty wide range, but not old SimpleText
>> read-only docs. If I say {"public.plain-text", "ttro"} it doesn't work. If I
>> say {"TEXT", "ttro"} it does work. From this I conclude that if you try to
>> mix UTIs and four-letter file types you get your hand slapped. Is this a
>> bug? m.
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