MacID
Used on the Macintosh to convert a 4-character constant to a value that may be used by Dir, Kill, Shell, and AppActivate.
Syntax: MacID( constant )
- constant
- required A String of 4 characters used to specify a resource type, file type, application signature, or Apple Event — for example,
"TEXT","OBIN","XLS5"for Excel files ("XLS8"for Excel 97); Microsoft Word uses"W6BN"("W8BN"for Word 97).
The return type is Long.
MacID is used with Dir and Kill to specify a Macintosh file type. Because the Macintosh does not support * and ? as wildcards, you can use a four-character constant instead to identify groups of files. For example, the following statement returns TEXT-type files from the current folder:
Dir("SomePath", MacID("TEXT"))
MacID is used with Shell and AppActivate to specify an application by using the application’s unique signature.
Note
twinBASIC currently targets Windows. MacID is provided for source compatibility with VBA code originally written for the Macintosh; on Windows, the value it returns has no special meaning to the file-system or shell functions.