Re: Folder actions in OSX
Re: Folder actions in OSX
- Subject: Re: Folder actions in OSX
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:52:29 -0700
at 2001 12 21, 01:57 +0000, they whom i call Mr Tea wrote:
This from Mario Kolaszewski at @965 on Thu, Dec 20, 2001
Does anyone have an idea if Apple is making an
approach to bring back folder actions i OSX?
I know nothing, Mario - but given the radically different way windows
work in X, it's unlikely that folder actions will reappear in their
current form.
I'm only just getting my head around the idea that folders and the
windows that their contents appear in are not directly linked any more.
my (non-authoritative) impression was that the classic
Folder Actions were hooked into the folder _window_ (and
thus activated by Finder) only as a crude way to get a
notification of a change within the respective folder. i've
asked a few Cocoa developers whether Mac OS X can give true
notifications of file system changes, and the answer appears
to be no, so Folder Actions may have to be as much of a hack
(non-pejorative term) on X as they were on Mac OS 9 -- but
once the notifications are "faked", folder actions needn't
be fundamentally different on X. one twist would be that
folder actions must now take multi-user factors into account.
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steve harley email@hidden