• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file?


  • Subject: Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file?
  • From: G S <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:00:23 -0700

Very good summary, thanks.

"what kinds of files the application is aware of or wants to make
other applications aware of."

Which is exactly what I want to do; I need to make QuickTime Player
aware of a video-file type that I'm providing a Movie Importer
component for.  I'm told that the only way to ensure that a new file
type opens in QT Player on a user's system is to install a stub app
that uses the UTI to mark the type as derived from public.movie.

Perian does this, and the little app is compiled AppleScript that
calls QT Player to open the file.  I can't get this to work, however;
the app launches but just sits there.

Anyway, I appreciate the info.

Gavin
_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

References: 
 >What REALLY determines which application opens a file? (From: G S <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file? (From: G S <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file? (From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file? (From: G S <email@hidden>)
 >Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file? (From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file?
  • Next by Date: Re: NSEntityMigrationPolicy subclass methods not being called
  • Previous by thread: Re: What REALLY determines which application opens a file?
  • Next by thread: Number of layout managers for NSTextStorage increases
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread