Hi,
I've written some code to handle relocating of user home folders, in
particular, the rewriting of full paths in preference files. For the
majority of applications, this all works sweetly with Foundation.pm
and the usual NSDictionary calls.
However I am running into issues with the Finder sidebar. The
"useritems" in the sidebar plist are based on "aliases" - with no
POSIX file paths at all (like Dock has).
I gather this is all Carbon magic, and I have been wandering round
the Macperl docs without much success. I'm guessing that Mac::Files
might be the right area.
Does anyone know what calls I could use to parse and edit the alias
data (which I currently have extracted into temp files)?
Years ago I hacked together a Carbon/Foundation c thingy that figures
out alias data.
http://firebolt.scl.utah.edu/public/dockit/dockit.c
It creates the plist info that goes in the dock prefs. The alias
data is part of the output. You could hack the code so that it only
prints alias data, or parse the output. I keep wanting to make it
more useful but I hate c. I would love to be able to do this in Perl
exclusively.
I have no idea if using an external utility like this will work for
you. Let me know either way.
James
