Thanks Sean That's certainly interesting, but seems like overkill in my case. SMJobBless seems to be addressing a bigger problem - how to let an app run privileged tasks without authorizing the entire app and without repeatedly asking the user for a password.
That's not quite what I want. I actually want the user to be prompted for the password whenever it's needed just in the same way that Finder does. I don't see that as quite the same thing. All I'm trying to do is to get the system to not fail the move with a permission denied error and to seek that permission from the user. I can achieve this simply enough with applescript, but I was hoping there was a Cocoa solution. Best Phil > On 18 Jun 2015, at 09:13, Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:16:48 +0700, sqwarqDev said: > >> Hi list >> >> I'm trying to move some files to the trash with my app, but I need OS X >> to throw an authentication dialog when the requested file needs >> permission to be moved. >> >> I need a solution that will work from 10.6 onwards, so I've been looking >> at NSWorkspace's recycleURLs rather than NSFileManager's trashItemAtURL >> (not available pre 10.8). >> >> My problem is that recycleURLs doesn't appear to offer an option to ask >> the user for a password if it's needed. Is there another method I can >> use that will, or a way to make recycleURLs throw the dialog? I know I >> could probably run an NSTask and call "rm" but that's a bit more brutal >> than what I'm looking for. I'd like the user to actually see the file in >> the Trash and to know that they've authorised its removal. > > You should look at the SMJobBless sample code, which I think is the current > way to do things: > > <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/SMJobBless/Introduction/Intro.html> > > Cheers, > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > _______________________________________________ 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
