Thanks you Jonah and Adam for the quick responses. Now I understand
that it's probably most efficient to read in the contents my self
manually.
One final question pertaining to applescript files in particular. I
can use NSApplescript to get the code of them. One problem I've found
is that when NSApplescript gets their code that applications launch.
As you probably know when you open a script with Script Editor, it
will often launch the applications inside of a "tell application"
blocks of that script in order to read in the dictionary of those
applications.
Well when I use NSApplescript to get the code of applescripts it does
the same thing. Applications launch! So Adam, you mentioned how
QuickLook uses a plugin to generate its preview, is there a way to use
that plugin to help me get applescript file code? Or maybe someone
knows a better way because the way I'm doing it is unacceptable
because it greatly disrupts the user experience when seemingly random
applications start launching.
Thanks,
Hank
On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
On 03/05/09 09:57, "HAMSoft Admin" <email@hidden>
wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new to the list so please bear with me. I don't know anywhere I
can search
the previous posts of this discussion board and google hasn't been
any help.
I'm writing a program and I need to access the contents of the
files that are
returned after an MDQuery. I can get the file paths from the query
and then
just read in the file contents manually, but I'm wondering if I can
get this
information directly from the query results.
I'm also looking at how QuickLook can display the file contents.
For example,
with an applescript file spotlight does not index their code
without a 3rd
party plugin. But if I pull up the QuickLook window for an
applescript file
the code is displayed. So I'm wondering how QuickLook gets the text
of a file
too.
Spotlight and Quick Look are orthogonal. A Quick Look plugin reads
the
content of the file and generates the preview.
--
adam
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