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Re: Creating alias to app for PDFService

Subject: Re: Creating alias to app for PDFService
From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:34:20 -0400
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Antonio Nunes wrote:

Thanks James. With your help a bit more tinkering enabled me to find
the solution. I shouldn't be calling linkPath:toPath:, but
createSymbolicLinkAtPath:pathContent: instead to create aliases. With
that call, creating the alias is easy peasy. I list the corrected and
expanded complete method here in case it's of any use to anybody.
Note that this code only looks in the user's library folder, it
ignores the option of installing the service for all users.

I don't know how much of an impact it will have directly here, but please be aware that there are some differences in the way the system handles symlinks (which is what you're actually creating here) and aliases. If you find you really want an alias, there's a function in the MoreIsBetter sample code package that will do it:

<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/MoreIsBetter/listing17.html>
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