On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Steve Cronin <steve_cro...@mac.com> wrote:Adam;I'm an ObjC guy -- I generally avoid the C stuff if possible - 'cause I haveto support my own code.In addition to what the others have said, avoiding the C stuff if possible but being perfectly happy to use *AppleScript*, of all languages, is completely bizarre. C may be somewhat tedious and unforgiving, but it doesn't come anywhere remotely close to the utter horribleness that is AppleScript.
Indeed. Let me add that the MDItem code I posted was the 3rd iteration of that method. The first used NSAppleScript, but it took 0.5s to execute and caused a noticeable hiccup in the app. My second attempt used raw Apple events and executed in 0.01s, but would cause Finder to stall when it was called during a drag-and-drop targeting Finder (ISTR Finder's event loop was trying to process the Apple event and the drop event at the same time).
Using the MDItem C API had none of the AppleScript/Apple event problems, and was a small fraction of the code. Once you get used to working with CF, it's really no harder than Obj-C, and gives you more tools to choose from.
-- Adam
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