Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java)

Subject: Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java)

From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:14:39 -0600

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On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

I would use Launch Services API to get at this information via JNI and
not parse that file directly.

Before I get into the inevitable JNIDirect stuff I sort of tried to figure out how to parse this out of

lsregister -dump

but failed to come up with a decent grep that showed what I thought it should. Theres another command besides lsregister I think that I've come across the might be in the archives in my past posts on it. (I might be mis-remembering and that might just be multiple URL references to lsregister)

Now the JNIDirect...

I have some Launch Services JNIDirect to do this. Basically for the functionality as I read this...

Now, what you could do that would be *REALLY* spiffy would be to create a similar routine that took into account every stand-alone, AppleScriptable mailer for the Mac.

I set up...

import macnative.jnidirect.ls.LSApp;

public class mailapps {

static { System.loadLibrary("ls"); }

public static void main(String[] args) {

LSApp lsapp = new LSApp();

String[] mailapps = lsapp.listUrlAcceptors("mailto:email@hidden",-1);

for (int i=0;i<mailapps.length;i++)

System.out.println(mailapps[i]);

}

(kLSRolesAll = -1)

which returns...

mini-black-box:~/devstuff/ls mjh$ java -cp .:jnidirect.jar:Linker.jar mailapps

/Applications/Mail.app

For the really curious I used JNIDirect to generate a strict JNI version (not JNIDirect no gcc or developer tools dependancy) at...

http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall/ls.jar

For the too curious, you can figure out why I only find Mail.app, I do have Eudora, not recently used but I moved it into /Applications to try and get a little more interesting output but it failed to find it. The LSApp code is a little lame in not using Launch Services to determine possible application locations. I was not and still am not sure of a Launch Services API for this. I just search /Applications and the user's /Applications. It should at least search nested directories which should of turned up Eudora.

Mike Hall mikehall at spacestar dot net

http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall

http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative

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References:
	>Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java) (From: Jeremy Wood <email@hidden>)
	>Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java) (From: email@hidden)
	>Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java) (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)