[Pythonmac-SIG] Docs for Carbon.file??

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, jul 31, 2003, at 00:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Barker 
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Are there any docs for the Carbon.File module (and the rest of the 
> Carbon Package).
>
> I'm not much of a mac programmer (Python is the only language I've 
> ever programmed on the Mac with), so all this Mac stuff is a mystery 
> to me.

Use the Apple documentation. If you have installed the developer tools 
you have it, and it's even searchable from within the IDE (although 
that may not be the best way to approach it:-).

> In any case, I need to set the type and creator of a file just created 
> by my program. Poking around, I found that this appears to work:
>
> 			import Carbon.File
> 			mac_file = Carbon.File.FSSpec(filepath)
> 			info = mac_file.FSpGetFInfo()
> 			info.Creator = "COSM"
> 			info.Type = ".SAV"
> 			mac_file.FSpSetFInfo(info)
>
> I figured this out by trying things out, I couldn't find any docs. 
> What I have seems to work, but it also seems a whole lot clunkier that 
> it should be. Is there an easier way?

Carbon.File strictly follows the Apple API's, so the documentation and 
the Python code match. For this specific case there is 
MacOS.SetCreatorAndType(file, creator, type). This call is documented, 
see the Mac section of the Python documentation.
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