Re: How to find icon file path?
Re: How to find icon file path?
- Subject: Re: How to find icon file path?
- From: Clark Mueller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:52:40 -0600
My instinct here, actually, would be to find out the file's kind string
(Volume, Folder, Microsoft Word document...), because those icons should
be the same for the same kind. Barring that, I wonder if isEqual: would
be acceptable for you? Or is that what you're trying to avoid?
Clark
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 08:35 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 04:23 , Ondra Cada wrote:
My application wants to determine whether two files use the same icon
or not, and iconForFile: won't tell me that (short of comparing all
the bitmap pixels and wasting lots of spacetime, which I'd really
rather not have to do.)
Hmmmm. You mean you get different NSImages with the same contents for
different files which share the same icon? It is possible, but I would
be surprised.
Incidentally, what do you need it for? It sounds like an *extremely*
strange goal.
If you wanna check whether different files are of the same type, well,
the -getInfoForFile:application:type: should be used here. Icons are to
be used for display only; they should not be used for any substantial
task. An icon for given file migth be different in different times
(since, eg., the user changed application assignment meanwhile, or just
installed a new app, or removed old one, or whatever)...
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