On 25/7/00 4:23 pm, David C. Tremmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to determine the type of a file on the MacOS? I have
> tried looking in the help docs and in the archives. I did find where
> Scott mentioned that you had to check if files had a certain type,
> but I can't figure out how this could be done. I know how to filter
> the answer file dialog to only show certain types of files, but I
> would like to filter the file list before displaying it to the user
> in the application I'm working on. I can use the filter command to
> check for certain text in the file name, but can't come up with a way
> to determine the Mac OS file type of individual files. Can this be
> done?
Yes, you filter a similar way to the way you do on Windows, e.g.:
if the platform is "MacOS" then
put "MSTKSTAKTEXT" into tFilter --hc, mc and text documents
else
--put your windows string in here
end if
answer file "Open stack:" with filter tFilter
Regards,
Kevin
> Dave Tremmel
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