On 9 Aug 2007, at 7:28 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>   On Aug 8, 2007, at 08:57, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> Actually, according to an Apple engineer, "public.data" should accept
>> generic documents (i.e. should be equivalent to a file type of "*").
>> So that's definitely a bug. Unfortunately that is not true on Tiger,
>> I added that to my bug report. And that was (some time ago) also
>> miserable to track down. Perhaps I'll file a bug report on the
>> documentation.
>
> I recalled a problem of not accepting drags to the dock icon when
> public.plain-text was declared with the wildcard document, but I was
> hoping public.data would work correctly (and I'm pretty sure I tested
> it...but not on Tiger).  It figures.
>

That was the same problem, and the one that triggered me to file the  
bug report. And when they advised me to use public.data, which did  
not work.

>> Anyway, it's very bad for backwards/forwards compatibility.
>
> Yeah, this sucks for compatibility, but hopefully it will all be a
> distant bad memory one of these days.  I've always found NSDocument/
> NSDocumentController's type handling to be confusing with the mix of
> extension, HFS type, and named document type.
>
> -- adam

And lots is not accessible and therefore customizable.

Christiaan



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