On os X:
The default creator code for textedit is the same as it was for simple
text - TEXT.
the file type is R*ch - peculiarly the same as for BBEdit files :/
julian
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Ross Clutterbuck
> Sent: 15 September 2004 11:28
> To: Lingo-L List
> Subject: <lingo-l> Mac Creator & File Type Code for
> RTF files
>
>
> Hi List
>
> One of these days I'll just buy a Mac and work all
> this out for myself but until that day...
>
> I'm capturing a user's progress through the
> troubleshooting application I'm working on and I'm
> exporting that to a Rich Text document. However,
> the application at some point may need to open this
> document directly.
>
> PC-wise this is not a problem: just using
> baOpenFile() to open the document with whatever
> application is associated with the .rtf extension
> (at the very least Windows users will have Wordpad
> available).
>
> However, when this runs on the Mac, I'm going to
> need to give my RTF file Creator and File Type
> codes in order for the Finder to know what sort of
> file it is, and thus which application baOpenFile()
> should use. From what I've read so far if I use
> "????" for the Creator code and "RTF_" for the File
> Type code, the Finder should display a list of
> applications available who can read RTF files. Is
> that correct?
>
> I would perfer this to be a little more seamless
> i.e. just fires up a basic RTF reader (MacOS's
> equivalent to Wordpad effectively - does SimpleText
> to rich text?) and shows my file. In this case, if
> possible, what are the Creator and File Type codes I need?
>
> Thanks as always
>
> Ross
>
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