Re: Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)
Re: Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)
- Subject: Re: Determining general type of a file (image, text, sound, etc...)
- From: Oleg Svirgstin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:47:00 +0400
Hi Ken and all,
I would use the Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI), look at the ADC:
"ADC Home > Reference Library > Guides > Carbon > Data Management >
Uniform Type Identifiers Overview >".
I have used the UTI several times to identify image files and it
worked well.
HTH,
Oleg
On Jun 29, 2008, at 01:37, email@hidden wrote:
Hi
I'm writing a "KFile" class that encapsulates a bunch of file
operations that are spread out over several Cocoa and Carbon classes
and want to have a couple of testing methods such as "isImageFile",
"isMusicFile", "isTextFile" etc. I'm trying to avoid hard coding HFS
types and/or file extensions and have it perform these tests much
like the Finder does in it's search window where you can specify
file kind as "Images", "Music", "Text", "Movies" etc. Is there any
any built in way, in either Cocoa or Carbon, to get a list of types
that correspond to say "Images" or perform a test on a specific file
that returns true for "Images"?
Thanks for any help
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