Re: How to do what Finder does programmatically
Re: How to do what Finder does programmatically
- Subject: Re: How to do what Finder does programmatically
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:25:17 -0700
On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
If the document is a file, Finder will add a 'usro' resource which
contains the absolute path to the application to be used.
Thanks to Alistair who pointed me to: <http://sutes.co.uk/2009/09/creator-codes-are-not-replaced.html
>
So the ancient-but-elegant notion of a creator code has been thrown
out, to be replaced by the use of the ancient-but-lame resource fork,
as well as ancient-and-fragile hardcoded paths? :-P
—Jens
PS: The Apple folks are welcome to tell us this is off-topic, if they
can tell us where else to discuss it, instead of just wishing the
problem away. I ran out of patience with that sometime during the
interminable Fucking NDA phase of the iPhone developer experience.
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