File Types and Creator Codes

[Ray Horsley]

Very interesting Richard!  Thanks.  I'm finding many files, especially  
applications, come up empty for the creator and type using either of  
these methods.  I imagine applications don't have a creator and type  
but I thought a zip file would.  Maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks,

Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software

On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
> Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site
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