Re: Getting an application's creator code
Re: Getting an application's creator code
- Subject: Re: Getting an application's creator code
- From: Philippe Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:54:56 +0200
At 18:17 +0200 03/07/02, Ondra Cada wrote:
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On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 04:38 , Philippe Martin wrote:
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>However, when the application is a bundle, these attributes don't have the NSFileHFSCreatorCode. I guess I could get the CFBundleSignature from its info.plist file, but I wonder if there's a more direct way that I miss.
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Just use NSBundle (created by bundleWithPath:), and check its infoDictionary. It makes actually for the very same algorithm, but using simpler and much more portable code.
Ah, thanks!
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Incidentally, what you need the creator code for?
To make an alternate (faster) way to change the InternetConfig default applications. IC references them by creator code.
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Creator codes are pretty obsoleted -- the Cocoa standard is the *bundle identifier* without any clumsy 4-char-limitations. You can get it through bundleIdentifier message sent to the bundle.
Noted. Thanks again.
Philippe
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