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Re: Understand whether an application can open a specific file

Subject: Re: Understand whether an application can open a specific file
From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 08:45:16 -0500


On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Giovanni Donelli wrote:

Dear Folks, is there a clever way to figure out whether an application X can open a file Y or not?

I notice that if you drag, say a PDF file, over the icon of iCal in the finder, iCal doesn't highlight notifying the user that the application can't open that file.

is there a function such as: ApplicationCanOpenFileAtPath() ?

You'll need to drop down two Carbon, but LSCanURLAcceptURL in LaunchServices.h will do this, but it's pretty trivial:

Glenn Andreas                      email@hidden
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