Maybe you are correct. I have found a couple of other cases where Sandboxing limits the functionality of my application. I'm beginning to think maybe I should not Sandbox.
By the way, none of the applications I have downloaded from the MAS are Sandboxed. Seems to be a lot of exceptions being made. Jim Merkel On Sep 15, 2012, at 2:55 PM, koko <k...@highrolls.net> wrote: > Yes, a piece of cake for a piece of cake app. > > Try doing something like iterating the file system so you can present to the > user all files of unique types you understand that can be anywhere on the > system. > > The sandbox is like a cat box … to be avoided at all costs. > > -koko > > On Sep 15, 2012, at 3:01 PM, James Merkel wrote: > >> >> On Sep 13, 2012, at 12:45 PM, James Merkel <jmerk...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> Sandboxing is not as restrictive than I though it would be. >>> >>> For example, the documentation for the entitlement: >>> com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write says this entitlement >>> provides: "Read/write access to files the user has selected using an Open >>> or Save dialog" . >>> I was reading more into that than I should have. If you use the Open dialog >>> to access a file, then you can read and write to the file. You don't have >>> to use the Save dialog to write to the file. And that file >>> can be anywhere on the file system (except for system files I guess). >>> >>> And yes the app is really sandboxed. If no entitlements are enabled I can't >>> do anything (except read and write to recent documents in the Open Recent >>> menu). >>> >>> So with just that entitlement and a Printing Entitlement I can do just >>> about everything I could previously do before Sandboxing. >>> The only thing I can't do is write comments to the Finder GetInfo window -- >>> because that uses Applescript. But I can live without that. >>> >>> So unless I'm missing something, sandboxing is a piece of cake. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jim Merkel >>> >> >> Just noticed -- perviously I had the capability to make a change to all >> files in a folder based on the changes to a particular open file from that >> folder. >> With Sandboxing, I can't do that anymore since those other files weren't >> opened from an Open dialog. >> So maybe Sandboxing is not so wonderful. >> On the other hand, one could also say that my previous implementation didn't >> follow human interface guidelines. >> >> Jim Merkel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/koko%40highrolls.net >> >> This email sent to k...@highrolls.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
