On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Charles Srstka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[source appendFormat:@"set theAlias to make alias at POSIX file
\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to
POSIX file \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"\n", NSTemporaryDirectory(), originalPath];
Ple
At 18:15 -0500 23/09/08, Ken Thomases wrote:
>On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
>>That's news to me... I really can't recall right now where the alias file
>>format was officially documented, but in the Classic days it was quite
>>acceptable to create them yourself...
>
>From
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Charles Srstka
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[source appendFormat:@"set theAlias to make alias at POSIX file \"[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]" to
> POSIX file \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"\n", NSTemporaryDirectory(), originalPath];
Please never do anything like this. This will fail
On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
(They were invented before Apple Events, after all ;-) )
This is actually not correct - alias files and Apple Events were both
introduced simultaneously in System 7.0.
Charles
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:14 AM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
On 24-Sep-08, at 5:10 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:57 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
It created an executable file with name foobar alias on desktop
but when i try to o
On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:57 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
It created an executable file with name foobar alias on desktop but
when i try to open it it says
"chaitanya-pandits-macbook:~ chaitanya$ /Users/chaitanya/Desktop/
foobar\ alias ; exit;
-ba
Chaitanya,
If you're working with aliases and Cocoa, take a look at the free
NDAlias classes. There are even methods to create alias files.
--
Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rogue Research
On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
At 15:12 -0700 23/09/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ken Thomases <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apple has never officially supported applications creating alias
files. In fact, the documentation often refers to them as "Finder
alias files" b
At 15:12 -0700 23/09/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>From: Ken Thomases <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:40:47 -0500
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Apple has never officially supported applications creating alias fi
On 24-Sep-08, at 3:32 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:57 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
It created an executable file with name foobar alias on desktop but
when i try to open it it says
"chaitanya-pandits-macbook:~ chaitanya$ /Users/chaitanya/Desktop/
foobar\ alias ; exit;
-bas
On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:57 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
It created an executable file with name foobar alias on desktop but
when i try to open it it says
"chaitanya-pandits-macbook:~ chaitanya$ /Users/chaitanya/Desktop/
foobar\ alias ; exit;
-bash: /Users/chaitanya/Desktop/foobar alias: cannot e
On 24-Sep-08, at 2:22 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:48 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I tried using:
OSErr FSNewAliasFromPath ( const char *fromFilePath, const char
*targetPath, OptionBits flags, AliasHandle *inAlias, Boolean
*isDirectory );
But i don't quite get how shoul
On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:04 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
Suppose the target file to which the symbolic link is pointing to is
moved, is there any way one can determine where it was moved or
deleted? Assuming the file was moved even when the app was not
running?
Generally, symbolic links don't
Thanks for the input Ken,
Suppose the target file to which the symbolic link is pointing to is
moved, is there any way one can determine where it was moved or
deleted? Assuming the file was moved even when the app was not running?
On 24-Sep-08, at 2:10 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Sep 23, 20
On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:48 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I tried using:
OSErr FSNewAliasFromPath ( const char *fromFilePath, const char
*targetPath, OptionBits flags, AliasHandle *inAlias, Boolean
*isDirectory );
But i don't quite get how should i use the fromFilePath parameter,
say i want to
I tried using:
OSErr FSNewAliasFromPath ( const char *fromFilePath, const char
*targetPath, OptionBits flags, AliasHandle *inAlias, Boolean
*isDirectory );
But i don't quite get how should i use the fromFilePath parameter,
say i want to create an alias for "Users/me/Documents/foo" at "Users/
On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:13 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I've been struggling with for quite a while now, what i want to
achieve is create an alias of a folder at some location.
You may be being tripped up by terminology. An "alias" is an opaque
data structure in memory. An "alias file" is a
On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:32 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I tried using symbolic link, but if the target file is moved, the
link fails, just curious to know of any reasons i should avoid
creating aliases?
What i need is the link should work even if the target is moved.
Because aliases are on
On 24-Sep-08, at 1:47 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:13 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I've been struggling with for quite a while now, what i want to
achieve is create an alias of a folder at some location. The alias
would also be a folder like we have after creating an alia
On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:13 PM, chaitanya pandit wrote:
I've been struggling with for quite a while now, what i want to
achieve is create an alias of a folder at some location. The alias
would also be a folder like we have after creating an alias in the
finder.
say i have a folder "foo" in "
Hi,
I've been struggling with for quite a while now, what i want to
achieve is create an alias of a folder at some location. The alias
would also be a folder like we have after creating an alias in the
finder.
say i have a folder "foo" in "/Users/me/Documents/foo" and i want to
programati
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