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Re: Preference Files

Subject: Re: Preference Files
From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:59:07 -0700

On 2009-09-16, at 16:45:16, Shane Stanley wrote:

the trend looks like it's steering towards POSIX paths

Actually, it looks like it's steering towards URLs. In SL, several APIs for open/save panels have been changed -- methods like setDirectory: have been deprecated in favor of setDirectoryURL.

That's for the API's [1] (and I'm quite happy with those) but we're talking about property list storage format here. The issue is that most unfortunately, the bottom line plist XML categories do not include a <url>…</url> element. Consequently, the storage format must be something else.

[1]

set fpath to missing value

set op to openPanel() of class "NSOpenPanel" of current application

tell op

set allowsMultipleSelection to false

set canChooseDirectories to false

set allowedFileTypes to {"txt"}

set rslt to runModal()

if (rslt is equal to 1) then

set furl to (item 1 of its URLs)

set fpath to (relativePath() of furl) as text

end if

end tell

Philip Aker

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