On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote: > -> 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.
And if you're working with APIs which take FSRefs, take a look at FSPathMakeRef[WithOptions]. (CFURL can perform this same conversion, but it takes a couple of steps.) Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ 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
