Filter Open Dialog File Types

Question

I want to filter file types in the open dialog. By reading the Photoshop CS3 scripting reference, I understand it is different if you want it to work on a Mac. So my question is how do you filter file types on a Mac computer. I know how to do it for a Windows platform (Example: *.psd)
This is what the JavaScript Tools Guide PDF says:
● In Windows, a filter expression, such as "*.jsx"
● In Mac OS, a filter function that takes a File instance and returns true if the
file should be included in the display, false if it should not.

Answer 1

[email protected] wrote:
> I want to filter file types in the open dialog. By reading the Photoshop CS3 scripting reference, I understand it is different if you want it to work on a Mac. So my question is how do you filter file types on a Mac computer. I know how to do it for a Windows platform (Example: *.psd)
>
function filter(file) {
return file.name.match(/\.psd$/i) != null;
Or you could do something like this:
function filter(file) {
return file.creator = 'XXXX' && file.type == 'XXXX';
where XXXX are whatever they should be on a Mac. You could write a conversion
function that takes a Win-formatted pattern (*.psd) and returns a function that
works for the Mac. I tried but never did get it working for anything other than
simple patterns; it just wasn't that necessary for my work.
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