[Pythonmac-SIG] associating file types and applications...

[Jack Jansen]

On 1-apr-04, at 9:38, Jens Miltner wrote:
>> There *is* a way to do this, though: the various media players 
>> (quicktime, itunes, realplayer, windows media) all offer to handle 
>> all your mp3s and other types for you, and if you say "yes" they do 
>> it (at least until you override again from the finder).
>>
>> I'm not sure whether they do this through AppleEvents to the Finder, 
>> AppleEvents to something else or a completely different mechanism, 
>> though.
>
> AFAIK, this is still done is through InternetConfig (even though that 
> API is kind of deprecated) - you should be able to set the default 
> "helper app" for a file type / mime type using the InternetConfig 
> APIs...

I got the impression that the Internet Config APIs had only retained 
the stuff to read  settings under OSX, not the stuff to write settings. 
But I may not have looked close enough...
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