Re: Type/Creator codes for RTFD Documents
Re: Type/Creator codes for RTFD Documents
- Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes for RTFD Documents
- From: Tod Cunningham <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:25:24 -0500
Tim:
Thanks for the quick response, that really looked like the right path
to follow, but I still couldn't get it to work. First I tried adding
the PkgInfo file to the Contents directory. The PkgInfo file was
simple enough, so I used vi to create the file containing "EntXRTFD"
(my document creator & type code). That did work even through a reboot
to try to flush finder cashes.
Finally, I tried adding a Info.plist file to the Contents directory and
still no luck.
Can these be added manually through a Terminal window or is there some
other flag that I have to set for the OS to pickup these settings? Any
other ideas?
Thanks,
Tod Cunningham
--- Contents of Info.plist ---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>EntX</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>RTFD</string>
</dict>
</plist>
On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Timothy Carl Buchheim wrote:
I traced this down to the fact that RTFD is really a directory
created with a file wrapper (RTFDFileWrapperFromRange) that really
produces a directory of files. Seeing how the RTFD is really a
directory it isn't allowing the type/creator attribute information. I
have two questions:
1. Why is fileAttributesToWriteToFile still getting called?
there are other attributes (such as timestamps) which do apply to
directories
2. How do I give the RTFD a custom icon and associated it
with the
application that created it?
You should be able to make a foo.rtfd/Contents/Info.plist file with
appropriate values for the CFBundlePackageType and CFBundleSignature
keys (and, optionally, put the codes in foo.rtfd/Contents/PkgInfo)
See the following documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
BPRuntimeConfig/Tasks/ConfigApplications.html
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/
CFBundles/Concepts/anatomy.html
As far as I can tell, setting the filetype/creator this way works for
document bundles as well as application bundles.
For example, I created an RTFD file (foobar.rtfd) with TextEdit and
then created a foobar.rtfd/Contents directory, and then wrote
"RTFDxcde" to the file foobar.rtfd/Contents/PkgInfo
The finder now opens my file in Xcode when I double click it.
--
Tim Buchheim System Administrator
Computer Science Department Phone: (909) 607-3485
Harvey Mudd College Fax: (909) 607-8364
1250 N Dartmouth Ave E-mail: email@hidden
Claremont, CA 91711 http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~tcb/
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