Re: Can't get UTI to stick
Re: Can't get UTI to stick
- Subject: Re: Can't get UTI to stick
- From: "C.W. Betts" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:55:37 -0600
Try making the UTI UTTypeConformsTo to also include public.data. Also, make sure in the Spotlight importer that the app's UTI is being imported.
If you do mdls on a .tgc file, what do you get?
On Apr 2, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Jo Meder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a Quick Look generator for one of my app's file types. As part of that I've defined a UTI for that file type. However whatever I do I can't the UTI to stick. I've rebuilt the app, moved it around and used lsregister to kill the Launch Services database and rebuild it. Dumping the Launch Services database shows that the UTI isn't being picked up from the app. It's not happening on 10.5 or 10.6. Here are the relevant parts of my app's plist:
>
> <key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
> <array>
> <dict>
> <key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
> <dict>
> <key>public.filename-extension</key>
> <array>
> <string>tgc</string>
> <string>TGC</string>
> </array>
> </dict>
> <key>UTTypeDescription</key>
> <string>Terragen 2 Clip document</string>
> <key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
> <array>
> <string>public.xml</string>
> </array>
> <key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
> <array>
> <string>uk.co.planetside.Terragen_2.clip</string>
> </array>
> </dict>
> </array>
>
> <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
> <array>
> <dict>
> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
> <array>
> <string>uk.co.planetside.Terragen_2.clip</string>
> </array>
> <key>CFBundleOSTypes</key>
> <array>
> <string>TG2C</string>
> </array>
> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
> <array>
> <string>TGC</string>
> <string>tgc</string>
> </array>
> <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
> <string>TGC.icns</string>
> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
> <string>Terragen 2 Clip document</string>
> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
> <string>Editor</string>
> </dict>
> </array>
>
> I have tried commenting out the CFBundleDocumentTypes section so there is just the UTI but that didn't help.
>
> Can you see something wrong with the above? I'd greatly appreciate any help. So far I've spent longer trying to get this to work than I did on the Quick Look generator itself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jo Meder
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