Re: telling when a directory is really a bundle
Re: telling when a directory is really a bundle
- Subject: Re: telling when a directory is really a bundle
- From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:52:26 -0700
On 10/22/07, Martin Redington <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 23 Oct 2007, at 00:39, Clark Cox wrote:
>
> > On 10/22/07, Martin Redington <email@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 22 Oct 2007, at 17:44, Sean McBride wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 10/22/07 4:19 PM, Dirk Stegemann (Mailing-Lists) said:
> >>>
> >>>> For example, I copied an .xcodeproj bundle to a system which didn't
> >>>> have the Xcode tools installed. The Finder treated the bundle as
> >>>> ordinary folder; is this intended behaviour?
> >>>
> >>> That's because the 'bundle bit' is not set by Xcode when it
> >>> saves. In
> >>> my experience, few applications do this, which is a shame because
> >>> it's
> >>> easy and fixes the problem you describe.
> >>>
> >>> I would suggest that all apps that save as packages/bundles set the
> >>> bundle bit on their documents. You can use MoreFilesX's
> >>> FSChangeFinderFlags () function like so:
> >>>
> >>> FSChangeFinderFlags (&projFolderRef, true, kHasBundle);
> >>
> >> I've just been looking at the kHasCustomIcon flag, and that seems to
> >> be wildy inaccurate for most items as well ...
> >
> > How so? (note that "having a custom icon" is not the same as "not
> > having a generic icon")
>
> Well, in the same way that only about four of the .app's in the /
> Applications directory has the hasBundle bit set, only a dozen had
> the kHasCustomIcon bit set.
Because most files don't have custom icons, they have the icons
provided by LaunchServices.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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