File Types and Creator Codes

[Richard Gaskin]

Ray Horsley wrote:
> Anybody know how to determine these?  In particular, I need the file  
> type and creator for zip files.

In RevNet's Stack's section is a file named "4W File Typer" which lets 
you drop files onto it to view and change the type and creator code.

You can get to RevNet from inside Rev:  Develop->Plugins->GoRevNet


Here's the script which obtains the creator code info, using "the 
detailed files" in which each line returned as a number of 
comma-separated elements and item 11 is the combined creator and type:

on dragDrop
   get line 1 the dragData
   if it is not empty then
     put it into fld "file"
     put it into tDir
     set the itemdel to "/"
     put last item of it into tFileName
     delete last item of tDir
     put the directory into tSaveDir
     set the directory to tDir
     put the detailed files into tFiles
     set the directory to tSaveDir
     put line lineoffset(urlEncode(tFileName), tFiles) of tFiles into 
tFileData
     set the itemdel to comma
     get item 11 of tFileData
     put char 1 to 4 of it into fld "creator"
     put char 5 to 8 of it into fld "type"
   end if
end dragDrop



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