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Subject: Last item before publishing: file types
From: chuck hinkle <chuckbo at hinkles dot us>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:14:27 -0500
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I've been fighting these file types and icons for several months. Here's the
latest information, but I don't know how to get to the finish line.


Build Settings:
    Build for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9
    Creator code: clhX
    
Filetype:
    Name: Dashset
    Mac Creator: Dash
    Mac Type: Dash
    Document icon is set
    Extgension: .gdb

This document is really a Valentina database, in case that enters into it.


I compile the program.
I run it on OS X and create a document. It has the icon that I want. When I
run the app and do File Open, this document is an available choice. If I
double-click on the file, it opens my app.

I copy the file and the Classic app to OS 9.
The icon is just a document icon.
If I run the OS 9 app and do a File Open, my file is an available choice.
Double-clicking on the icon gives me a dialog box that says it can't find
the application program that created the document and offers to open it with
my OS 9 app.

If I run the program on OS 9 and create a new document, it has the generic
document icon and it gives the me same message (if I double-click on it)
that the copied document gave me.

The Bundle flag is NOT set on this document. (That comes from a suggestion
of Thomas Tempelmann's, but I don't know what the corrective action is.)
The custom icon flag is NOT set on this document.





||  Chuck Hinkle  [INTJ]
||  chuckbo at hinkles dot us
||  <http://www.hinkles.us/chuckbo/>
||
||  "Perception is usually more persuasive than reality."


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