What is and where can you get the descriptions that are found in Spotlight's kMDItemKind attribute? They don't seem to be the same ones that UTTypeCopyDescription returns. I printed out all the built in UTTypeCopyDescription descriptions for built in UTIs, and they don't have more than a passing resemblance to what Spotlight lists in kMDItemKind.
Can you somehow convert from UTI to this description? How are these descriptions related, if at all to UTIs? Is there a way to get all the possible values for kMDItemKind from spotlight? I read all the spotlight docos and don't feel enlightened. --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How to get a list of all known file types? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "j o a r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6:48 PM > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Chris Idou > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've got an app which is matching on file types, > so I want the user to be able to say "show me all > the... say... MS-Word documents, or JPeg images" or > whatever. So I need to present the user with all the > possible types their system knows about, so they can select > what files they are interested in. > > > > IIRC, this question has come up before and there > doesn't appear to be > a way to get a list of all known UTIs from Launch Services. > > The 10.4 version of Finder appeared to have some private > way of > getting this list, however, the list was mostly useless for > browsing > through due to the inordinate number of UTIs that > applications/bundles > had declared. > > Phil _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
