Re: Get list of Finder items in a window
Re: Get list of Finder items in a window
- Subject: Re: Get list of Finder items in a window
- From: Daniel Gobera <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:42:34 -0800
Thanks for the response. That's what I imagined.
Does anyone have a suggestion of a better way to get the list of
selected items of all Finder windows?
Daniel
On Mar 3, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2007-03-03 2:11 AM, Daniel Gobera at email@hidden wrote:
I need to get the list of Finder windows (that works). For each
window I would like to get the list of items it contains. Is there a
consistent way to do this? It seems like the path to follow depends
on the configuration of each window (icon/list/columns view, with
toolbar, with side bar, etc.), which makes this approach really
fragile.
One of the key things to remember about the Accessibility API is
that it is
intended to reflect the GUI. It is not written as a general-purpose
API for
getting at the innards of applications. This is because its goal is to
enable disabled users to work with the computer as nearly as
possible the
way non-disabled users do. Thus, when the GUI shows the icon view of a
window, that's what the Accessibility API will give you, and when
the GUI
shows the list view, that's what the Accessibility API will give
you. When
you use the Accessibility API to get at something other than the
GUI of an
application, you have to accommodate these restrictions.
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