Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before and have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no knowledge of Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that Apple Events were pretty much old technology from before OSX, but now I see that it appears that it's the foundation of AppleScript. I guess I should take time to look into these technologies sometime (I come from a NextStep/OpenStep/WebObjects background)...
Is there any particular reason you say to stay away from NSTask? Scripting Bridge seems like an interesting option, but after having generated the headers for Finder, I could not see a command there for compressing files. I guess it's not scriptable. Jens has confirmed that there is no limit to the length of the args for NSTask, so am planning to go with my option 1 - it's a technology I understand, and should apparently do what I need to do, and do it efficiently. On 15/02/2010, at 4:06 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > Gideon King (gid...@novamind.com) on 2010-02-15 00:28 said: > >> Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder. >> >> ... >> >> Are there any other options that I'm not aware of? > > NSWorkspaceCompressOperation? Sounds promising, right? But the docs > say "This operation always returns an error"? HA! :) > > Did you investigate Scripting Bridge, AppleScript, or Apple Events? The > Finder has a Compress option in its File menu, maybe you can tell Finder > to zip for you. Stay away from NSTask when you can. > > Sean > > -- > "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government > when it deserves it." - Mark Twain > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
