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Re: Bundle is not using icon or CFBundleIdentifier
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Re: Bundle is not using icon or CFBundleIdentifier


  • Subject: Re: Bundle is not using icon or CFBundleIdentifier
  • From: "Timothy Reaves" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
  • Importance: Normal

> On 04.10.2009, at 06:30, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>> I have a bundle defined as a document type for an app.  When I build
>> one of these bundles, and double-click it, it opens in my app.  All
>> well and good.  Except the following.
>
>   Wait, the bundle is defined as the app's document type? Then of
> course the app's Info.plist provides the icon.
>
>> 1) I have an icns file in my bundle, and have the CFBundleIconFile
>> key in the info.plist in the bundle  set to the name of the icon.
>> The icns file is in the correct location in the bundle.  But the
>> bundle does not display the icon.  It justuses the generic OS icon.
>
>   You need to specify the icon in the CFBundleDocumentTypes of your
> application. Only certain bundles get scanned for an Info.plist.
> Documents can contain whatever they want, so the OS gets all
> information for them from the app that owns them.
>

     I did not know this.  Thanks.

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 >Bundle is not using icon or CFBundleIdentifier (From: Timothy Reaves <email@hidden>)
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