On 18.10.2010, at 09:54, Thorsten Lemke wrote: > Ah - I convert the : now manually to a / for the following File Manger Calls > (not Cocoa). That does it.
What are you doing? Are you trying to read old preferences that contain Carbon paths? This should *not* be necessary. -> If you're displaying file names to the user, use displayNameAtPath:. Not only does it substitute slashes for colons as needed, it also honors hidden file extensions, and shows localized names for folders on non-English operating systems. And componentsToDisplayForPath: will correctly add the hard disk name at the start, or remove /Volumes, just like the Finder does. -> If you're accessing files, you can simply pass this "wrong" path with the colon in it to any POSIX or Cocoa call and it'll work. -> If you're converting between POSIX/Cocoa paths and CoreServices file manager paths, use the existing conversion calls. CFURLRef includes some neat methods to let you convert between both kinds of paths. In any case, Apple's recommended format handling file paths is CFURLRef/NSURL*. Speaking in Carbon terms, that class wraps information not unlike an FSRef inside it, so it's a much faster and more efficient way of storing file references than paths (at least on 10.6 and later, where this actually got implemented). You can even get back alias-like data for storing on disk by grabbing the "bookmark data" from a NSURL. Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://www.zathras.de _______________________________________________ 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
