Re: Doc kind from extension
Re: Doc kind from extension
- Subject: Re: Doc kind from extension
- From: Sidney San Martín <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:42:48 -0400
I would hope so! Neither of those functions are marked as deprecated
in the docs, so they're not going anywhere soon.
-Sidney
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Micha Fuhrmann<email@hidden> wrote:
> Sidney thanks,
>
> Will this still be available in Snow Leopard?
>
> Michael
> On 11 juin 09, at 18:17, Sidney San Martín wrote:
>
>> How about this?
>>
>> CFStringRef UTI =
>> UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension,
>> CFSTR("pdf"), NULL);
>> NSString *name = [(NSString*)UTTypeCopyDescription(UTI) autorelease];
>> CFRelease(UTI);
>> // name is now "Portable Document Format (PDF)"
>>
>> -Sidney
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Micha Fuhrmann<email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately all I can feed it with is the file extension....
>>>
>>> Any other idea? Isn't there a mapping plist between extension and Kind
>>> that
>>> exists somewhere?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 juin 09, at 16:09, Graham Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/06/2009, at 11:50 PM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone knows how to get the system doc kind from a given extension. Not
>>>>> from a file, or a file path for that matter, but just from an
>>>>> extension.
>>>>> Like giving "pdf" and receiving "Portable Document Format (PDF). I've
>>>>> tried
>>>>>
>>>>> NSString * theTest = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]
>>>>> typeFromFileExtension:@"pdf"];
>>>>>
>>>>> But I get nil.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [NSDocumentController displayNameForType:] ?
>>>>
>>>> --Graham
>>>
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