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Inside Macintosh: Cyberdog Programmer's Kit / Part 3 - Cyberdog Reference

Chapter 6 - Types, Constants, and Global Functions / Types and Constants

Media Types and Part Kinds
Table 6-1 contains constants used to represent Cyberdog items and their downloaded content:

MIME media types are strings ('text/html' for example) used in MIME transmissions to indicate the type of the data being transmitted.
When the user drags a Cyberdog item to the Finder or to a document as an OpenDoc part, Cyberdog assigns a part kind (an ISO string) to the part according to the type of data it contains.
When the user drags a Cyberdog item to the Finder as a reference, Cyberdog assigns a reference kind (an ISO string) to the reference according to the type of data to which it refers.

The following additional constant represents the ISO prefix for part kinds.

kMIMEPrefix
The ISO prefix prepended to a MIME media type to create a part kind.
Table 6-1 MIME media types, part kinds, and reference kinds (continued)
MIME media type Part kind Reference kind MIME media
type string
kApplicationAppleFile kApplicationAppleFileKind kApplicationAppleFileRefKind 'application/applefile'
kApplicationCompress kApplicationCompressKind kApplicationCompressRefKind 'application/x-compress'
kApplicationMacBinary kApplicationMacBinaryKind kApplicationMacBinaryRefKind 'application/macbinary'
kApplicationMacBinhex40 kApplicationMacBinhex40Kind kApplicationMacBinhex40RefKind 'application/mac-binhex-40'
kApplicationOctetStream kApplicationOctetStreamKind kApplicationOctetStreamRefKind 'application/octet-stream'
kApplicationPostscript kApplicationPostscriptKind kApplicationPostscriptRefKind 'application/postscript'
kApplicationText kApplicationTextKind kApplicationTextRefKind 'application/text'
kAudioAIFF kAudioAIFFKind kAudioAIFFRefKind 'audio/x-aiff'
kAudioBasic kAudioBasicKind kAudioBasicRefKind 'audio/basic'
kAudioWAV kAudioWAVKind kAudioWAVRefKind 'audio/x-wav'
kImageGIF kImageGIFKind kImageGIFRefKind 'image/gif'
kImageJPEG kImageJPEGKind kImageJPEGRefKind 'image/jpeg'
kImagePICT kImagePICTKind kImagePICTRefKind 'image/x-pict'
kImageTIFF kImageTIFFKind kImageTIFFRefKind 'image/tiff'
kImageXBM kImageXBMKind kImageXBMRefKind 'image/x-xbitmap'
kImageXPM kImageXPMKind kImageXPMRefKind 'image/x-xpixmap'
kMessageExternalBody kMessageExternalBodyKind kMessageExternalBodyRefKind 'message/external-body'
kMessagePartial kMessagePartialKind kMessagePartialRefKind 'message/partial'
kMessageRFC822 kMessageRFC822Kind kMessageRFC822RefKind 'message/rfc822'
kMultipartAlternative kMultipartAlternativeKind kMultipartAlternativeRefKind 'multipart/alternative'
kMultipartDigest kMultipartDigestKind kMultipartDigestRefKind 'multipart/digest'
kMultipartMixed kMultipartMixedKind kMultipartMixedRefKind 'multipart/mixed'
kMultipartParallel kMultipartParallelKind kMultipartParallelRefKind 'multipart/parallel'
kTextEnriched kTextEnrichedKind kTextEnrichedRefKind 'text/enriched'
kTextHTML kTextHTMLKind kTextHTMLRefKind 'text/html'
kTextPlain kTextPlainKind kTextPlainRefKind 'text/plain'
kVideoAVI kVideoAVIKind kVideoAVIRefKind 'video/avi'
kVideoMPEG kVideoMPEGKind kVideoMPEGRefKind 'video/mpeg'
kVideoQuickTime kVideoQuickTimeKind kVideoQuickTimeRefKind 'video/quicktime'

MIME media type	Part kind	Reference kind	MIME media type string
`kApplicationAppleFile`	`kApplicationAppleFileKind`	`kApplicationAppleFileRefKind`	`'application/applefile'`
`kApplicationCompress`	`kApplicationCompressKind`	`kApplicationCompressRefKind`	`'application/x-compress'`
`kApplicationMacBinary`	`kApplicationMacBinaryKind`	`kApplicationMacBinaryRefKind`	`'application/macbinary'`
`kApplicationMacBinhex40`	`kApplicationMacBinhex40Kind`	`kApplicationMacBinhex40RefKind`	`'application/mac-binhex-40'`
`kApplicationOctetStream`	`kApplicationOctetStreamKind`	`kApplicationOctetStreamRefKind`	`'application/octet-stream'`
`kApplicationPostscript`	`kApplicationPostscriptKind`	`kApplicationPostscriptRefKind`	`'application/postscript'`
`kApplicationText`	`kApplicationTextKind`	`kApplicationTextRefKind`	`'application/text'`
`kAudioAIFF`	`kAudioAIFFKind`	`kAudioAIFFRefKind`	`'audio/x-aiff'`
`kAudioBasic`	`kAudioBasicKind`	`kAudioBasicRefKind`	`'audio/basic'`
`kAudioWAV`	`kAudioWAVKind`	`kAudioWAVRefKind`	`'audio/x-wav'`
`kImageGIF`	`kImageGIFKind`	`kImageGIFRefKind`	`'image/gif'`
`kImageJPEG`	`kImageJPEGKind`	`kImageJPEGRefKind`	`'image/jpeg'`
`kImagePICT`	`kImagePICTKind`	`kImagePICTRefKind`	`'image/x-pict'`
`kImageTIFF`	`kImageTIFFKind`	`kImageTIFFRefKind`	`'image/tiff'`
`kImageXBM`	`kImageXBMKind`	`kImageXBMRefKind`	`'image/x-xbitmap'`
`kImageXPM`	`kImageXPMKind`	`kImageXPMRefKind`	`'image/x-xpixmap'`
`kMessageExternalBody`	`kMessageExternalBodyKind`	`kMessageExternalBodyRefKind`	`'message/external-body'`
`kMessagePartial`	`kMessagePartialKind`	`kMessagePartialRefKind`	`'message/partial'`
`kMessageRFC822`	`kMessageRFC822Kind`	`kMessageRFC822RefKind`	`'message/rfc822'`
`kMultipartAlternative`	`kMultipartAlternativeKind`	`kMultipartAlternativeRefKind`	`'multipart/alternative'`
`kMultipartDigest`	`kMultipartDigestKind`	`kMultipartDigestRefKind`	`'multipart/digest'`
`kMultipartMixed`	`kMultipartMixedKind`	`kMultipartMixedRefKind`	`'multipart/mixed'`
`kMultipartParallel`	`kMultipartParallelKind`	`kMultipartParallelRefKind`	`'multipart/parallel'`
`kTextEnriched`	`kTextEnrichedKind`	`kTextEnrichedRefKind`	`'text/enriched'`
`kTextHTML`	`kTextHTMLKind`	`kTextHTMLRefKind`	`'text/html'`
`kTextPlain`	`kTextPlainKind`	`kTextPlainRefKind`	`'text/plain'`
`kVideoAVI`	`kVideoAVIKind`	`kVideoAVIRefKind`	`'video/avi'`
`kVideoMPEG`	`kVideoMPEGKind`	`kVideoMPEGRefKind`	`'video/mpeg'`
`kVideoQuickTime`	`kVideoQuickTimeKind`	`kVideoQuickTimeRefKind`	`'video/quicktime'`