All good thoughts, but hold the phone. I think I have a mishmash a lot of old deprecated info plist keys and outright misapprehensions in my Info.plist, especially under CFBundleDocumentTypes and UTExportedTypeDeclarations. I think the file extension swapping will behave correctly once I've gotten it fixed. I will post an update tomorrow.
I don't think your number 2 will be workable, since we're sandboxed/PowerBoxed here. If the NSSavePanel gives me a security scoped URL to a give file system path, I may not be able to write to a variant of that path. -Tom On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2013, at 16:20 , Thomas Bunch <t...@omnigroup.com> wrote: > >> Yes, in fact, I do exactly this. It's kind of suboptimal, in that >> NSSavePanel will first give you a warning: >> >> >> “Foo.oplx” already exists. Do you want to replace it?” and so on… the user >> will probably reflexively accept that one. >> >> Then we check and see that you're asking to dump a folder of web stuff, that >> the folder exists, that its contents don't look like a bucket of HTML and we >> pop up a second “That seems like a really bad idea, really really blow that >> away?” sheet. > > Working backwards, it seems to me you really, really want to retain this last > behavior in any situation where you're writing a folder to replace a folder. > Even if the extensions behaved the way they should, you could easily get a > situation where the user selected an entirely unrelated folder, and > "reflexively" accepted the warning about that replacement. > > If that's so, the extension behavior is somewhat a red herring. When you're > exporting multiple types via a single dialog, writing one of the types on top > of one of the other types is probably something you should always check for. > > A couple of other thoughts: > > 1. Is there any value in configuring your save panel to hide the "show/hide > extension" checkbox, and to always display extensions. That will, > incidentally, ensure that the saved item will show its extension in the > Finder, regardless of what the user normally does. You could then go ahead > and use '.htmld' without ever misleading the user that it wasn't there. > > 2. You could probably arrange to keep the "htmld" behavior in the dialog, and > rename the folder to remove the "htmld" at the end of the save. (You'd have > to use a NSDocument "perform…" method to ensure you re-set the document's > fileURL at the right time afterwards.) The drawback, of course, is that the > un-extensioned folder may already exist, and you don't know what the user > wants you to do about that. You *might* be able to mitigate that problem via > the save panel delegate's validate method. > > 3. Is there any value in the idea of exporting folders of stuff (that is, > exporting things that don't have a unique UTI) via a separate menu item that > doesn't involve choosing a type in its save panel? > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
