Actually, the users are shown files in a NSTableView and they select a menu to encrypt/decrypt. That's where I'll warn them. Thanks for your suggestion.
On Mar 20, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Robert Martin wrote: > Given all the problems I've seen raised in this thread, I was just thinking > that you might just implement the encryption in a droplet, or a drop window - > so users can choose when to encrypt rather than having the encryption 'done' > to them. > > I just kept thinking about it, so thought I would mention it! > > Rob > > > On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Brad Stone wrote: > >> Is there a way for me to tell if a particular file is open in another >> application? >> >> I have a feature I'd like to provide to my users that involves encrypting >> files that belong to other apps (i.e. my application can encrypt/decrypt a >> Word or Excel file). I want to prevent the user from encrypting or >> decrypting the file if it's open (i.e. the file is open in Word). I would >> like to display a dialog box that says something like "myWord Doc.docx is >> open. Please close it and continue." I've found the ability to find >> running applications and I've found commentary that says what I'm asking for >> is not possible. I couldn't find anything in NSWorkspace or NSFileManager >> to help unless there's a file attribute I don't know about that can tell me. >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks in advance_______________________________________________ >> >> 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/robmartin%40frontiernet.net >> >> This email sent to robmar...@frontiernet.net > _______________________________________________ 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
