FolderItem.MacType

Targets macOS
1

Hi!

I know that FolderItem.MacType is deprecated. But why?
There is a modern replacement available which works well (even on macOS 10.13):

Soft Declare Function NSHFSTypeOfFile Lib "Foundation"(path As CFStringRef) As CFStringRef Dim cocoTYPE As CFStringRef = NSHFSTypeOfFile(pXPVFile.NativePath)

Sometimes there is a need for an old TYPE instead of an Uniform Type Identifier.

Also FolderItem.MacCreator is not deprecated. This seems to be an error to act differently for TYPE and CREATOR…

Comments?

2

Deprecated doesn’t mean removed from Xojo. Apple have probably deprecated them since they stopped using them a decade ago.

3

Of course does Apple no longer use TYPE and CREATOR. But they are still part of the Finder-Info of a file (at least on HFS) and I need to access it from time to time.

Since I like to compile with no warning I replaced the FolderItem.MacType with the “NSHFSTypeOfFile” call. But I wonder if it is really necessary.

BTW: Is there another way to silence a deprecated warning?

4

Stay warned, in an upcoming version this is may be a syntax error.

5

That’s why I replaced it already in m code with “NSHFSTypeOfFile” :wink:

6

[quote]I know that FolderItem.MacType is deprecated. But why?
There is a modern replacement available which works well (even on macOS 10.13):[/quote]
They have been replaced with Universal Type Identifiers.

Note that your suggested replacement method NSHFSTypeOfFile contains “HFS”, it may not be functional on a system with APFS.