Whew! Thx! I was part way through all that but wasn't sure what I could pass to reset(); Digging through it now. I haven't dealt with this stuff before.
Ken At 6:24 PM +0100 2/5/09, Jonas Maebe apparently wrote: >On 05 Feb 2009, at 17:03, Ken G. Brown wrote: > >>Thx for the quick response! >>I think I'm almost there. I seem to have a bundlePath : CFURLRef; but I don't >>quite know what to do with it. How do I convert it to something I can use in >>a Reset() to open a file? > >If you enter CFURLRef in the search box at the top right point of the page, >the first link in the search results is >http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFBundleRef/Reference/reference.html > >The Overview section notes: > >*** >You can also obtain locations of subdirectories in a bundle represented as >CFURL objects. The CFBundleCopyExecutableURL function returns the location of >the application's executable. The functions CFBundleCopyResourceURL, >CFBundleCopySharedFrameworksURL, >CFBundleCopyPrivateFrameworksURL,CFBundleCopySharedSupportURL, and >CFBundleCopyBuiltInPlugInsURL return the location of a bundle's subdirectory >containing resources, shared frameworks, private frameworks, shared support >files, and plug-ins >*** > >Clicking on CFURLRef in the declarations of these functions redirects to >http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFURLRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/CFURLRef > >On that page, under "Functions by Task" and then "Accessing the Parts of a >URL", there is a function called CFURLCopyFileSystemPath. This function can >return a POSIX path (kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle) in a CFStringRef. > >Clicking on CFStringRef redirects to >http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/CFStringRef > >There, under "Functions by Task" and then "String File System >Representations", there is a function called >CFStringGetFileSystemRepresentation, which in combination with >CFStringGetMaximumSizeOfFileSystemRepresentation can be used to obtain a >null-terminated string containing a path that can be passed to reset etc. > > >Jonas >_______________________________________________ >fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org >http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
