Re: [OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Sean McBride
On 9/23/09 1:14 PM, Eric Gorr said: >> It seems to me that this isn't Cocoa-related, so it's really off- >> topic... > >Sadly, there doesn't appear to be a good mailing list for these >topics. Launch Service's lineage is Carbon (to use a overloaded term). It uses FSRefs and OSStatus and other Cl

Re: [moderator] Re: [OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Anguish
Oh. Well… There isn’t an Apple mailing list for it. Perhaps the developer forums (deveforums.apple.com) might have an area appropriate if you have access). But mostly you’d need to rely on the doc, providing feedback, and perhaps something like StackOverflow or the like. Not as straight

[moderator] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Anguish
Just so there is no mistake. Discussion of the removal of creator codes, merit of creator codes, etc, isn’t appropriate for here. I don’t have a suggestion for a better location for you to discuss it. Scott [moderator] On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: It has been al

Re: [moderator] Re: [OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Gorr
Actually, I was more interested in learning where questions about UTIs would go (it's not clearly a Cocoa topic), not where advocation of UTI over any other file association system would go. On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Scott Anguish wrote: This might be a repeat - I can’t mail from my regul

[moderator] Re: [OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Anguish
This might be a repeat - I can’t mail from my regular address from where I am currently. This is not the appropriate list for advocation of UTI over any other file association system. I’m not aware of any that would be appropriate. So please take it elsewhere. The comments on that article,

Re: [OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Gorr
On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote: On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:42, Todd Heberlein wrote: As a result, most of their conclusions are incorrect as well. If you can't set the UTI differently on two files with the same type code and extension, it can't serve as a creator code.

[OT] Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:42, Todd Heberlein wrote: As a result, most of their conclusions are incorrect as well. If you can't set the UTI differently on two files with the same type code and extension, it can't serve as a creator code. I've been wondering about this. Daring Fireball carried s

Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Gorr
On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:37 PM, BJ Homer wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Todd Heberlein >wrote: Inside Snow Leopard's UTI: Apple fixes the Creator Code http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/22/inside_snow_leopards_uti_apple_fixes_the_creator_code.html Some may also find it misl

Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Todd Heberlein
As a result, most of their conclusions are incorrect as well. If you can't set the UTI differently on two files with the same type code and extension, it can't serve as a creator code. I've been wondering about this. Daring Fireball carried some links with some strong criticisms on this, a

Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread BJ Homer
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote: > Some may find the following Apple Insider article on the the topic useful: > > Inside Snow Leopard's UTI: Apple fixes the Creator Code > > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/22/inside_snow_leopards_uti_apple_fixes_the_creator_code.h

Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Todd Heberlein
Some may find the following Apple Insider article on the the topic useful: Inside Snow Leopard's UTI: Apple fixes the Creator Code http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/22/inside_snow_leopards_uti_apple_fixes_the_creator_code.html On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Sep 23

Re: Creator Codes in Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread Jens Alfke
On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: So I looked at Launch Services Reference, but could not figure out, how to inform Lauch Services which app to use for some document. But if Finder can tell Lauch Services, then my app should be also able to do this, shouldn't it? Where