Hi Devin, I tested the following and found out the OS X is doing some magic things. Not setting the filetype lets LC set it to a standard text document. Setting it to empty lets OS X choose the creator by the file suffix. Setting it to a correct code of a program, which is installed on the machine leads to a document as you have set the code. Whether the program can later open the document or not. Setting it to a wrong / not existing code or a correct code of a program which isn't installed on the machine lets OS X choose the creator by the file suffix. So actually your guess could be wrong (what I don't think!) and it still would work but I can't verify it. I decided to stay with setting the filetype to empty and hope all current OS X will handle that. Thanks for the update of your helpful web site Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag > von Devin Asay > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 17:53 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: put URL destroys my file > > > On Apr 17, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > > Hi Warren, > > thank you, you were completly right. The put URL just sets the > > filetype to standard text Setting the filetype to empty before put URL > > lets the OSX recognize the file by its dmg extension. > > > > I have read that there might be some older systems, which can't > > recognize the filetype safely by its extension. Would it be more > > safely to set the filetype to a correct filetype or is empty ok for OS > > X 10.4 and higher? I didn't found the creator sign for the > > diskImageMounter and the filetype for DMG. Anybody knows? > > Thanks > > Tiemo > > Tiemo, > > This is an educated guess based on quick research, but I think the creator > code is 'ddsk' and the file type for a DMG is 'udif'. You could try this > before you save the DMG file to your local disk: > > set the fileType to "ddskudif" > > I would be interested to know what you discover. > > For more information see http://livecode.byu.edu/helps/file- > creatorcodes.php > > > Regards, > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
