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Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"

On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Bjoern Kriews wrote:

On 24.03.2004, at 22:35, Kevin Ballard wrote:

On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:16 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

I have a ~/Games folder, and I assume other people do that too (I'm
guessing there's probably some people with a /Games folder as well).

Oh, I forgot about /Developer/Applications as well. But why scan all of
the home folder? The only necessary folder is ~/Applications (and, in
my case, ~/Games)? Nothing else is useful.

That is a pretty bold assumption :-)

For example, my layout looks like this:

/Local/Applications
/Local/Users/me

And I have a pretty good reason for that:
My home gets backed up much more frequently than /Local/Applications
and I want to keep out the Apps so it fits on a single DVD-R.

I'd prefer Alastairs FSCatalogSearch approach, sounds like the right thing.

Probably the fastest way to list all apps on your drive is to use LaunchServices; these two lines of code will get you an NSArray filled with an NSURL for each application on the system, wherever it may be stored.

NSArray *urls;

_LSCopyAllApplicationURLs(&urls);

Unfortunately, the _LSCopyAllApplicationURLs() function is private and undocumented. But it does work, and since it's usually reading cached information out of the LaunchServices database, it's much faster than a file search. I don't know why Apple doesn't open this up - it would make things easier for people who have to do things similar to what you are doing to do it in the most user-friendly way possible.

Charles
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References: 
 >[ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Bjoern Kriews <email@hidden>)



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