Setting Mac OS File Type & Creator

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 11:31 AM -0700 8/15/2005, Dan Shafer wrote:
>I have a custom property set to a file. I want to write this file 
>out to an OS 9 system so that it shows up in Finder as a PDF file. 
>From all I can gather, I have a two-line problem:
>
>   set the fileType to "CAROPDF "
>   put PDFToOpen into URL "binfile:myFile.pdf"


Possibly try this instead:

   set the fileType to "CAROPDF "
   open file "myFile.pdf" -- create the file
   close file "myFile.pdf"
   put PDFToOpen into URL "binfile:myFile.pdf"

I'm not sure whether it will work - your original code works fine 
here - but there may be some nuance or other operating with URLs.

>A clue: ResEdit tells me the file I'm writing has no resource fork. 
>I was under the impression that using "binfile" solved that problem?

Actually no; whether a file is binary or not doesn't affect whether 
it has a resource fork. (PDFs normally have no resource fork anyway.) 
The type and creator are stored as part of the file meta-information, 
which isn't in either fork....
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ revolution at jaedworks.com
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