[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: 2.3b2-b BuildApplet droplets not recognized as apps

[Bob Ippolito]

On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 11:21 America/New_York, Russell E. Owen 
wrote:

> In article <772EA2C2-B494-11D7-B516-000A95686CD8 at redivi.com>,
>  Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, Jul 12, 2003, at 12:54 America/New_York, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> ..Your dock problem has to do with Type.
>>> It should be set to "APPL" in your applet if you want the dock to
>>> take it. The creator type does not matter in this case....
>
> Thank you both very much. It hadn't occurred to me that the dock could
> possibly care about creator and type because I thought Apple was moving
> away from relying on those. I have licenses for two different shareware
> programs that will fix this (XRay and FileBuddy), but very much
> appreciate the other suggestions -- including the Python code--  to 
> make
> this change.
>
> Presumably I can use similar Python code to get to the file creator (a
> question I raised earlier but the topic got diverted before I ever got
> an answer as to how to get and set that date).

I'm pretty sure the creator code would be fsinfo.Creator (referring the 
the variable in my previous example).

-bob