I'm still trying to get the kMDItemTextContent from files. In
particular applescript files are particularly important as I
mentioned below. Since yesterday I found a spotlight importer for
applescripts found here... http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/wiki/GTMSpotlightImporters
So now I can search the code of applescripts using spotlight, but I
still can't get the kMDItemTextContent into my project. But the
importer has that information because I can use "mdimport -n -d2
filePath" from the Terminal and see the kMDItemTextContent. My
question is this:
How can I ask the importer directly to return the
kMDItemTextContent to me? I want to bypass spotlight and go
straight to the importer. I know the importer has a function called
GetMetadataForFile() but I don't know how to use functions from an
importer. Can anyone help with that?
Thanks,
Hank
On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:24 PM, HAMSoft Admin wrote:
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.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=site:lists.apple.com+spotligh
t-dev+kMDItemTextContent
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.
No, you have to read it in yourself.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/spotlight-dev/2008/Mar/
msg00024.html
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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