Re: About the Bundle creator OS Type code
Re: About the Bundle creator OS Type code
- Subject: Re: About the Bundle creator OS Type code
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:54:22 +1000
On 19 Sep 2014, at 7:43 pm, Daryle Walker <email@hidden> wrote:
> Long ago, in the 1990s, I remember there was some web page on Apple’s server that let you register a four-character type code, for either type or creator. I’ve been trying to find it lately. I sometimes found references that could be it, but following the link either went to the Apple Developer search page that Apple uses for resource-not-found errors or went to the UTI guide, neither of which help.
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> Is there a version of the page still around? I want to use a vanity creator code in my Info.plist, but I want to ensure uniqueness if the code is still used for matching. If the code is ignored nowadays, can I put a vanity value there, or do I have to keep it “????”? I noticed (due to work in another thread) that Safari has a creator code (“sfri”), and I think TextEdit reuses TeachText/SimpleText’s creator code (“ttxt”).
AFAIK, those codes are not used anywhere by OS X, and you can put what you like there. In theory the code might be used by a Carbon app running in a very old version of Mac OS (e.g. Classic environment or pre OS-X) but I expect you can count the number of those systems still running on the fingers of one hand.
Certainly registering codes is no longer done, so I doubt there's any way to do it. Maybe there's a dust-laden cobweb strewn room somewhere in Apple's basement, long forgotten, where a lonely phone rings whenever someone tries to register a creator code, but the guy that used to answer it has long since died and nobody's noticed yet.
--Graham
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