Re: How-To create a document bundle
Re: How-To create a document bundle
- Subject: Re: How-To create a document bundle
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:23:27 -0500
On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Patrick Perroud wrote:
Hello,
My new UB application is needing a document bundle file format -
but I didn't find any "How-To" pointers in Reference Library: am I
right assuming I should first create a plain folder, then add the
document's files within that folder,
Yes.
then convert somehow that folder into a bundle?
No, which is why assumptions are evil. ;-) If you want to create a
proprietary packaged document type for your application, you need to
come up with an extension (should be unique to your application, of
course) for use with the names of those packages will you and add an
entry to your plist to tell Launch Services that folders with that
extension are packages. I can't remember the key off the top of my
head, but see what TextEdit does for .rtfd documents and copy it.
How to achieve this latter step (converting on the fly a folder to
a bundle being what I am actually looking for: any advice or
direction to create such a document bundle would be very much
appreciated indeed.
It will happen automatically if the folder's name has the correct
extension. Some people set the package/BNDL Finder info bit as well,
but IIRC that's only useful if a package ends up on a computer that
doesn't have your application installed (and hence doesn't recognize
your extension as belonging to a package).
Larry
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