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Re: choose file of type {}
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Re: choose file of type {}


  • Subject: Re: choose file of type {}
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:13:56 -0700

Bear in mind that just because a file contains XML data doesn't mean that the UTI system knows that. File type identification is based on a number of things, but file-content-sniffing isn't one of them. There has to be a definition of the document type somewhere, either in the built-in list (the quoted document has it) or in some installed application.

That said, if it seems to be excluding something that does in fact have a conforming definition, then that's a bug, so send it along.


--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Rainer Standke wrote:

Here the below works as expected under 10.4.11, but not under 10.5.5. It excludes way more files than it should.

Rainer

On Oct 23, 2008, at 16:51 , Luther Fuller wrote:


On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Philip Aker wrote:

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

You need the document "understanding_utis.pdf". Get it here ...

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_intro/chapter_1_section_1.html

For example, if you want to only choose pdf documents, you write ...

choose file of type {"com.adobe.pdf"}

Actually, the OP seems to have a point:

choose file of type {"public.xml"}

doesn't work as expected on my setup (10.5.5 almost stock but not a virgin user).

I just tried ...

	choose file of type {"public.xml"}

and it worked perfectly. (10.5.5). At least, it appeared to me to work perfectly.

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