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Posted by: barana on 2012-05-22 05:09:27
gday,
I'm learning hypercard from an old tutorial off the net,
the picture xcmd script example tells me to request a filetype of 192.
is there a list with filetype numbers out there on the net?
I thought macos only dealt with type/creator codes but this seems a different thing altogether
may i ask some kind persons help? thx
-Barana
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Posted by: Arthegall on 2012-05-22 10:28:33
It would help me if I knew a little more about the tutorial and the example you're working with.
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Posted by: dougg3 on 2012-05-22 18:37:31
I used to use HyperCard all the time back in the day, so I took a look to see if I could find the tutorial you're talking about. It looks like the tutorial you're using is this one, which relates to HyperCard IIgs. Am I right?
I think that the Apple II file system worked differently from the Mac's, at least as far as file types went. For example, file type 192 ($C0) is an "Apple IIGS Super Hi-Res Picture File" according to this PDF.
For Macs, I think you can say:
answer file "Select a picture:" of type "BLAH" for a file with a 4-byte type code of "BLAH".
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Posted by: barana on 2012-05-23 06:07:24
@dougg3
man u hit the nail on the head!
u even drew from the correct page!
thx mate, very much that was a succinct and perfect help!
tis easy to forget the differences, it didnt sound right re type and creator codes, but at the same time, numerical filetypes didnt sound wrong, either.
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Posted by: dougg3 on 2012-05-24 17:07:10
Glad I was able to help! 🙂 Have fun with HyperCard!
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