Am 13.06.2011 um 14:04 schrieb BH: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: >> Am 13.06.2011 um 12:21 schrieb Anders Ekberg: >> >>> On 2011-06-13 11.55, "Stephan Witt" <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Am 12.06.2011 um 09:13 schrieb Anders Ekberg: >>>> >>>>> On 2011-06-12 02.36, "Uwe Stöhr" <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Am 11.06.2011 20:48, schrieb William Harter: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Help, please! >>>>>>> Just following tutorial after downloading Lyx to I-Mac OS 10.6. Having >>>>>>> show-stopping problems with tutorial document involving template >>>>>>> issues. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. Attempting to follow instruction: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Open a new file with File->New from Template. Select letter.lyx >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Result: Empty template folder. >>>>>> >>>>>> Then our MacOS X package for LyX is broken. You must at least be able >>>>>> to >>>>>> see the template files that >>>>>> come with LyX. >>>>> >>>>> The Templates are now in the LyX application bundle ( under >>>>> Contents/Resources/templates ). >>>>> As a temporary work-around you can copy them from there to >>>>> ~/Library/Application Support/LyX/templates >>>>> But this should be fixed. >>>> >>>> Yes. See ticket: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6861 >>>> >>>> I tried to find a API to add a link to the finder left bar of the native >>>> file open dialog. >>>> The LyX way of doing this with Qt's own dialog was to add a sidebar url >>>> to the open dialogs - >>>> but this isn't a good solution either, the Qt-version of the file open >>>> dialog is far too >>>> Mac-agnostic. >>>> >>>> One possible workaround would be to copy the files example and template >>>> files to >>>> ~/Library/Application Support/LyX with reconfigure when missing. But as >>>> mentioned >>>> in ticket #6861 this is debatable behavior too. >>> >>> Though admittedly not perfect it at least has the benefit of actually >>> working ;-) >>> So since the current status is that no templates can be found (if the user >>> is not used to fiddle around in application bundles) and the open dialogue >>> points to this folder, would it not be a reasonable solution until >>> something better is found? >> >> Yes, I cannot come up with a better one currently. >> >> But I don't like to make this platform specific. At least on Windows the >> native >> File Open dialog is used too and the very same problem exists for the >> examples. >> And for Linux desktop I saw the request to use the native dialog too already. >> >> BTW, do you know or can ask anyone if any API to modify Finders sidebar >> links is available? > > I'm likely wrong here, but have you looked into accessory views? > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/AppFileMgmt/Articles/ManagingAccessoryViews.html
I'd say it is about the additional checkbox "Add to project" and doesn't refer to the side bar. I've read the complete documentation for NSOpenPanel and couldn't find what I was looking for. Stephan
