Monkeybread Xojo plugin - UTTypeMBS methods

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Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeJavaSource as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeJPEG as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

Some examples using this method:

/MacFrameworks/Image Capture/Scanner Browser

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeJPEG2000 as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeJPEGXL as string New in 25.0

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	25.0	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

A JPEG-XL encoded image.
The UTI is public.jpeg-xl

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMessage as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMountPoint as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMovie as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

Example

Var f as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.avi")
Var u as string = UTTypeMBS.UTI(f)

if UTTypeMBS.ConformsTo(u, UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMovie) then
  MsgBox u+" is movie"
else
  MsgBox u+" is not movie."
end if

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMP3 as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMPEG as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMPEG4 as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeMPEG4Audio as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeObjectiveCPlusPlusSource as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeObjectiveCSource as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypePackage as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypePDF as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypePICT as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypePlainText as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypePNG as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

Some examples using this method:

/MacCG/CGImageSource/CGImageSource Convert

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeQuickTimeImage as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeQuickTimeMovie as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeReferenceURLKey as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the constants for the keys used in type declarations.

Example

MsgBox UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeReferenceURLKey // "UTTypeReferenceURL"

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeResolvable as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeRTF as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeRTFD as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeSourceCode as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeSymLink as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeTagSpecificationKey as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the constants for the keys used in type declarations.

Example

MsgBox UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeTagSpecificationKey // "UTTypeTagSpecification"

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeText as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeTIFF as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeTXNTextAndMultimediaData as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeURL as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeUTF16PlainText as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeUTF8PlainText as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeVCard as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeVersionKey as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the constants for the keys used in type declarations.

Example

MsgBox UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeVersionKey // "UTTypeVersion"

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeVideo as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeVolume as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeWebArchive as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.kUTTypeXML as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

One of the predefined type constants.

UTTypeMBS.PreferredTagWithClass(inUTI as string, inTagClass as string) as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

Returns the identified type's preferred tag with the specified tag class as a String.

Example

MsgBox UTTypeMBS.PreferredTagWithClass("public.jpeg",UTTypeMBS.kUTTagClassMIMEType)
// shows "image/jpeg"
MsgBox UTTypeMBS.PreferredTagWithClass("public.jpeg",UTTypeMBS.kUTTagClassFilenameExtension)
// shows "jpeg"

This is the primary function to use for going from uniform type identifier to tag. If the type declaration included more than one tag with the specified class, the first tag in the declared tag array is the preferred tag.

UTTypeMBS.UTI(file as folderitem) as string

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
method	Launch Services	MBS MacOSX Plugin	8.5	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

Queries the UTI for a given file.

Example

Var f as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.xojo_binary_project")
MsgBox UTTypeMBS.UTI(f) // shows com.xojo.project.binary

Returns "" if no UTI is available.

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