Finder icon display bug in OS X 10.4.3

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/2/05 12:38 AM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> I've just installed 10.4.3 update, and there seems to be a new icon
> display problem with Valetina.
> 
> If you clone a database with a custom icon
> 
>          sourceDB.Clone(fNew, true)
>          fNew.MacCreator = "MYCR"
>          fNew.MacType = "MYDB"
> 
> the cloned db either has a blank icon or the Valentina icon!
> 
> This is a Finder refresh problem, because if you quit the Finder the
> icon diplays correctly when the Finder restarts.
> 
> Valentina is resetting the creator/type to VALA/Vdsc apparently when
> it clones instead of keeping the metadata in the file. That's
> confusing the Finder (in 10.4.3 anyway, it was OK before).
> 
> Can ou have Valentina keep the assigned file type and creator when
> cloning? I think this will get around this problem.

Yes of course possible.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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