Getting the type code of a file under OSX

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Brian,

As the files function returns a list sorted by alphabetical order, I  
don't think it's necessary.

Le 30 juil. 05 à 11:35, Brian Yennie a écrit :

> Quick observation... you may get unreliable results when the name  
> of one file is a substring of the name of another file in the same  
> folder. You might try adding a comma to the file name, or using  
> itemOffset() and wholeMatches.
>
> HTH
> - Brian
>
>
>> Hi Howard,
>>
>> You could use AppleScript but doing this with Transcript is easy  
>> and fast:
>>
>> function CreatorAndType pFilePath
>>   local tDefaultFolder,tCreatorType
>>   -----
>>   if the platform <> "MacOs" then return "Error: filetype not  
>> supported"
>>   put the defaultFolder into tDefaultFolder
>>   set the itemdel to slash
>>   set the defaultFolder to item 1 to -2 of pFilePath
>>   put urlDecode(the detailed files) into tFiles
>>   put line lineOffset(item - 1 of pFilePath,tFiles) of tFiles into  
>> tFile
>>   set the defaultFolder to tDefaultFolder
>>   set the itemDel to comma
>>   put item 11 of tFile into tCreatorType
>>   if tCreatorType = empty then return "Error: could not find the  
>> filetype"
>>   return char 1 to 4 of item 11 of tFile & comma & char 5 to 8 of  
>> item -1 of tFile
>>   -- creator and type separated by a comma
>> end CreatorAndType
>>
>> Best Regards from Paris,
>>
>> Eric Chatonet.
>>
>> Le 30 juil. 05 à 01:56, Howard Bornstein a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> I wanted to check to see if I'm missing something obvious. I want to
>>> be able to get the type code of a specific file under OSX. As far as
>>> I've been able to find, there is only one way to get the type code--
>>> with the files function. The detailed files includes the type and
>>> creator codes. However, this gets the entire list of files in the
>>> default folder. Unless there's something I'm missing, the sequence
>>> would be something like this:
>>>
>>> 1) Get the full path of the file you want the type code for
>>> 2) Extract the folder it's in
>>> 3) Set the default folder to that folder
>>> 4) Get the detailed files
>>> 5) Compare the file name with item one of every line in the files
>>> 6) When you find a match, extract the last item from the detailed  
>>> file
>>> description which is the type/creator code.
>>>
>>> This seems like a lot of work, just to get an attribute of a  
>>> file. We
>>> have the filetype property, where we can set the type of a file.  
>>> Isn't
>>> there a simple way to *get* the type of a file?
>>>
>>
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