How many times have you had to change the Type or Creator tags on a file that
mysteriously beamed up during a modem transfer? Or your looser friend who has a PC clone just sent you a GIF file of a close up of bacteria growing on cheese, only you can’t view it because it won’t show up as a legitimate file in your GIF viewing program.
Maybe you’re a programmer (like me) who has to change file Types and Creators for a whole host of reasons and you don’t want to use ResEdit (because it takes longer).
Let’s say you have 200 TEXT files and their Creator type is MSDB and when you double click on the icon in the Finder you get the old ‘The document “Bla Bla Bla” could not be opened…’ By changing the the Creator to lets MWII not only will you be able launch the old files into MacWrite II from the Finder you will also get icons instead of those ugly generic document icons. Anyway hax 2.0 will now change all 200 hundred files in just a few mouse clicks (provided they are all in the same folder).
hax 1.0 vs. 2.0
1. hax will now recursively calls files (so you do not have to keep re-launching the
app...sorry about that!).
2. I've added a popup menu to drop common file types (GIFf BINA TEXT PICT)
You can edit the popup with ResEdit.
3. I've added an option that will change all files in the directory that you choose BE
VERY CAREFUL!
4. The old version was made for 8 bit color and did,t
look that good on B&W systems. Ergo, I changed the
graphics.
If you want the source code, drop me a note.
AOL:TemplarDev
AppleLink: jdl.tech
Snail Mail:
Marciniak Development
908 Yellow Brick Road
Chaska, MN 55318
Dull but, sincere filler
hax has been tested on both systenm 6.0.x and 7.0.x, and the full spectrum of hardware. Marciniak Development shall not be responsible under any circumstances for any problems that may occur from using hax. Users should recognize that all complex software systems and their documentation contain errors and omissions.
