Re: Cocoa Calling Carbon Question
Re: Cocoa Calling Carbon Question
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Calling Carbon Question
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:28:22 -0500
On Monday, June 11, 2001, at 09:15 AM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
On lundi, juin 11, 2001, at 07:18 AM, Karl Goiser wrote:
Hello,
I don't know if this is a dumb question or not, but I can't work it
out. Can anybody help?
Short version:
How do I create an FSSpec from an NSString containg a full path name
(like /Users/karl/file1)?
For this kind of problem, I would have a look at the MoreFiles
utilities; IIRC, they have been carbonized.
Or, in a nutshell:
Use this to convert a path to a FSRef:
(from Files.h)
extern OSStatus
FSPathMakeRef(
const UInt8 * path,
FSRef * ref,
Boolean * isDirectory); /* can be NULL */
and then this to convert the FSRef to a FSSpec:
(also from Files.h)
extern OSErr
FSGetCatalogInfo(
const FSRef * ref,
FSCatalogInfoBitmap whichInfo,
FSCatalogInfo * catalogInfo, /* can be NULL */
HFSUniStr255 * outName, /* can be NULL */
FSSpec * fsSpec, /* can be NULL */
FSRef * parentRef); /* can be NULL */
I remember seeing a way to do this via an intermediate CFURL also (on
the Omni macosx-dev list), but I've found the above way to be a bit
easier (YMMV).
Brian
email@hidden
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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