Damon, Firstly there is no official way to do this, all the solutions you see in the wild are hacks of one sort or another.
Having said that, I had to implement what you are asking for (overlays on icons) and did it via SIMBL. Unfortunately I can't share code or say too much about what what is needed, but it would certainly help if you understood method swizzling and found a way to dump all the Obj_c classes that the Finder uses internally. Good luck Matt On 29 Sep 2011, at 20:39, Damon Allison wrote: > Hello, > > I am researching options for integrating with Finder. In particular, I would > like my application to provide file and directory icon overlays similar to > how Dropbox.app overlays green and blue images on top of file and folder > images. > > I noticed a few applications (svn utilities) that have used > `/Library/Contextual Menu Plugins` plugins to accomplish this. I've also seen > programs use SIMBL [1] plugins. Contextual Menu Plugins appears to have been > replaced by Automator Services, and SIMBL seems like an unsupported hack. > > Is there an 'official' way to integrate with the finder? If so, what is it? > If not, how does dropbox accomplish their finder integration? > > Either way, I would certainly appreciate any information / source code you > could provide. > > > Thanks, > Damon > > [1] SIMBL : > http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php_______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ 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
