Well, after spending the whole day... I think it is really hard to do.
I haven't gotten anywhere yet, but if I find out something I will post
it of course :)
I cannot imagine that this is an uncommon task...
Cheers,
André
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Absender: André Berg
Datum: 01.07.2009 10:35 Uhr
Hi David,
Thanks for replying :)
Actually I am coming from a v0.1 version of my program, was trying to
implement this with AppleScript Studio.
The Finder's dictionary has a "select" command but it appears that
this command does nothing more than to
call said NSWorkspace method. The behaviour of executing the "select"
command/method in a loop,
with the same set of path strings, once using pure Cocoa and once
using pure AppleScript is exactly the same.
It will open a new Finder window for every path string entry in the
array.
It *is* possible to supply the whole AppleScript list (AppleScript
list = NSArray) to the Finder's select command
(if you convert the POSIX path-style strings in the list to file URLs
via "POSIX file") and the "select" command is
smart enough to make a selection of all items in the frontmost window ...
... but only for the current folder level.
The problem with expanded subfolders in list view remains. Any paths
that point to files with expanded subfolders
will spawn a new Finder window each. I am currently experimenting with
looping through the subfolders, issueing
a NSAppleScript script that passes a list of POSIX files representing
each subfolder's contents every cycle of the loop,
but it looks like it's not keeping the selection in the parent folder
if I go to target a subfolder in the next loop cycle...
Thanks for the pointer to the AE docs. Until now I have always been
shying away from reading those as raw AppleEvents
are still confusing the heck out of me. Seems there's no excuse left
now .... unless there's some other way?
Cheers
André
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Absender: Dave Keck
Datum: 01.07.2009 7:20 Uhr
I'd imagine the easiest way to do this is using an AppleScript, which
can be embedded in your app using the NSAppleScript class.
But I've got a whole lot of PTSD towards AppleScript, so if it were
me, I would deal with the AppeEvents directly, much as it's done here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Applescript/Conceptual/AppleEvents/create_send_aepg/create_send_aepg.html
David
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