Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Scott Anguish
On 29-Mar-09, at 1:31 AM, Pierce Freeman wrote: Hi everyone. I have been looking into a way to search the user's hard drive for a files and have settled on Spotlight. I will say ahead of time that if anyone has a better way to search for files that are in changing places, I would love

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Pierce Freeman
Scott: Thanks for your reply. I more mean what has changed in the actual structure in Spotlight for Leopard. For example, I tried to follow this article: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/12/spotlight.html but it seems as if some of the code has been removed from Leopard (HISearchWindowShow

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Greg Guerin
Pierce Freeman wrote: For example, I tried to follow this article: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/12/spotlight.html but it seems as if some of the code has been removed from Leopard (HISearchWindowShow, etc). HISearchWindowShow is a Carbon function. If you don't include the

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:31:01 -0700, Pierce Freeman piercefreema...@comcast.net said: Hi everyone. I have been looking into a way to search the user's hard drive for a files and have settled on Spotlight. I will say ahead of time that if anyone has a better way to search for files that are in

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Scott Anguish
On 2009-03-29, at 1:14 PM, Pierce Freeman wrote: Scott: Thanks for your reply. I more mean what has changed in the actual structure in Spotlight for Leopard. For example, I tried to follow this article: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/12/spotlight.html but it seems as if some

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Pierce Freeman
Thanks for your reply Matt. I have been looking about all the problems with using Spotlight (including this problem) and am thinking that formulating a UNIX find command would probably be easier. Please comment back with any thoughts about this idea. On 3/29/09 12:51 PM, Matt Neuburg

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Pierce Freeman
I'm not aware of that being removed (and typically I would be) It's in the headers on Leopard. That example does have an issue in that it doesn't link against Carbon. But if you do that, it compiles without warning, and clicking on the search button brings up the current Leopard HI for

Re: Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-29 Thread Greg Guerin
Pierce Freeman wrote: Due to problems with Spotlight not searching other drives on default, I have decided on integrating the UNIX find command. Please reply with any ideas you have regarding this, including (please) something about saving the locations of the files that it found to an

Spotlight and Leopard

2009-03-28 Thread Pierce Freeman
Hi everyone. I have been looking into a way to search the user's hard drive for a files and have settled on Spotlight. I will say ahead of time that if anyone has a better way to search for files that are in changing places, I would love to hear about it! Anyway, all the documentation I found