Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.FinderMenu.commands.oldstuff.typeCreatorDialog

on doDialog (path) {
	local { <<names of the fields of the dialog
		okitem = 1;
		cancelitem = 2;
		promptitem = 3;
		typeitem = 4;
		creatoritem = 5};
	local { <<original values of each of the editable fields
		fname = file.fileFromPath (path);
		type = file.type (path);
		creator = file.creator (path)};
	on copytodialog () { <<copy info about "path" into the dialog
		dialog.setvalue (promptitem, "File “" + fname + "”:");
		dialog.setvalue (typeitem, type);
		dialog.setvalue (creatoritem, creator)};
	on copyfromdialog () { <<copy info about "path" from the dialog to the file
		local (s);
		
		on check4chars (s, msg) {
			if sizeof (s) == 4 {
				return (true)}
			else {
				msg = "File " + msg + " must be exactly four characters long. “";
				msg = msg + s + "” has " + sizeof (s) + " characters.";
				dialog.alert (msg);
				return (false)}}; <<don't get rid of dialog
		s = dialog.getvalue (typeitem);
		if s != string (type) {
			if not check4chars (s, "type") {
				<<dialog.setvalue (typeitem, type) <<restore to original value
				return (false)}; <<don't get rid of dialog
			file.setType (path, s)};
		
		s = dialog.getvalue (creatoritem);
		if s != string (creator) {
			if not check4chars (s, "type") {
				<<dialog.setvalue (creatoritem, creator) <<restore to original value
				return (false)}; <<don't get rid of dialog
			file.setCreator (path, s)};
		
		return (true)};
	on itemhit (item) {
		case item {
			-1 {
				copytodialog ();
				return (true)};
			okitem {
				if copyfromdialog () {
					return (false)}};
			cancelitem {
				return (false)}}
		else {
			return (true)}}; <<keep going if item isn't OK or Cancel
	
	if not file.exists (path) {
		scripterror ("File " + fname + " doesn't exist.")};
	if not file.isFolder (path) { <<only works for files, not folders
		dialog.run (dlogResource, okitem, @itemhit)};
	return (true)};

<<local (dlogResource = dialog.loadFromFile ("Creator & Type Dialog.DW"))
local (dlogResource = findermenu.commands.typeDialog.copyToResourceFork ());

FinderMenu.visitPaths (@doDialog)

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.