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: "Owen Yamauchi" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:23:15 -0700
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, <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"?
You could use the command-line utility "file" via an NSTask. Look at
its manpage for more info.
Owen
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