Mac OS X - associate application with file type icon

Question

I want to make it that for a certain file type, the icon is dynamically generated by my app. For example, photos appear as thumbnails in the Finder - I want .myapp files to appear as special, per-file generated icons in the Finder. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Review apple documentation for CFBundleTypeName, CFBundleTypeIconFile, LSItemContentTypes, etc... http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Documents/Concepts/DocTypePList.html