Re: Dynamically registering file types

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 May 2004, at 11:18, Dirk Olmes wrote:

> > Adding configure script to Zipper that is able to detect what is
> > installed and then create a correct Info.plist
> >
> > Talking about that...
> > http://pmk.sourceforge.net/
> > might be a nice idea.
>
> while this sounds like a good idea at first I'd like to have a more
> dynamic solution. What if I install the lha executable later and add 
> it to
> Zipper's preferences? Would I have to re-install the app for that? 
> hardly.

Then I think you need to dynamically update your Info_gnustep.plist and 
then call the [NSWorkspace -findApplications] method to update cached 
information about file types.
There is no API to dynamically register file types directly, but 
-findApplications does
the job by scanning the application information.