On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Craig Hoyt wrote:
After walking a volumes directory and extracting as much info as
possible about each file/folder, I find many files have no type and
creator info. Bundles or packages report a folder type & creator
(rightly so as it is a folder - but still not correct). I'm using
this info to extract the true files icon.
I have two questions. How do I ensure I get the proper T&C for
every file (including bundles)? Since T&C info is Mac old-school is
there a new and improved way to determine the proper icon for a
file? I'm also finding some applications are not showing 'APPL' as
a type but 'adrp'. What's up with that? The Finder can do this -
how are mere mortals supposed to do this?
adrp is likely a package (possibly a bundle but I doubt it)
In those cases you probably have to look at something else inside the
package/bundle to get the icon
Since Apple in OSX wants to play these games with files and folders
to obfuscate the real identify them, it should properly report this
info. This type of thing never happened in the Mac classic
environment where two separate files were displayed as one
Sure did.
Packages existed there too and you would get different type and
creator code for varying kinds of "applications"
and all toolbox calls worked properly. Is this an Apple thing or
is RS to blame for not doing it right? Or both?
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