sorry 'ttxt' not TEXT. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > 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 > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to > digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi > To post > messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L > is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. > Thanks!] >
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