Hi all,
Of late, I've been working to remove NSString-based paths, FSRefs, and
Alias Manager usage in my code, in favour of NSURL.
But I'm having trouble with alias files.
NSOpenPanel helpfully, by default, resolves aliases before it returns
the URL to you. But NSPathControl does not and file
On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
Of late, I've been working to remove NSString-based paths, FSRefs, and
Alias Manager usage in my code, in favour of NSURL.
But I'm having trouble with alias files.
NSOpenPanel helpfully, by default, resolves aliases before it returns
the
On 15 Apr 2011, at 16:44, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
Of late, I've been working to remove NSString-based paths, FSRefs, and
Alias Manager usage in my code, in favour of NSURL.
But I'm having trouble with alias files.
NSOpenPanel helpfully, by
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
On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:44:06 -0500, Ken Thomases said:
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
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:22:45 -0500, Ken Thomases said:
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
On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:10, Sean McBride wrote:
_this_ is a PITA:
- (NSURL*)URLByResolvingSymlinksAndAliases
{
NSURL* resultURL = [self URLByResolvingSymlinksInPath];
NSError* error = nil;
NSNumber* isAliasFile = nil;
BOOL success = [resultURL
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:01:14 -0700, Quincey Morris said:
I'll ask the dumb question: what happens if you invoke
bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL on a non-alias file? If it correctly
detects an error, your PITA code could be reduced to:
I thought about that, the docs say:
/* Given the url of a file
