On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:44:06 -0500, Ken Thomases said: >> NSOpenPanel helpfully, by default, resolves aliases before it returns >> the URL to you. But NSPathControl does not and file drops that you get >> off NSPasteboard also do not. So in many cases I need to manually check >> if a URL points to an alias file, and find the file it points to. Am I >> missing an easy/modern way to do this? > >Yes. Bookmark data is the modern replacement for alias records. The >new bookmark APIs are backward compatible with aliases, including alias >files. See the documentation for +[NSURL >bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL:error:]. You'd follow that with - >URLByResolvingBookmarkData:options:relativeToURL:bookmarkDataIsStale:error:.
Yeah, that works, but is not easy. I find it quite strange that there is a URLByResolvingSymlinksInPath method, but no corresponding method to change a URL to an alias file into a URL to the target file. Seems this is a common operation, much more so than doing the same with symlinks. The Mac GUI doesn't even let users create symlinks, but does let them create alias files. I was hoping I missed something.... but I guess not. Cheers! -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ 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
