Re: NSFileManager and aliases
Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- Subject: Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:24:38 +0200
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 12:31 , Charles Srstka wrote:
Sorry for the length of this reply - I figured that one really long
message would be better than a thousand short messages cluttering up the
list.
Actually, my answer can be quite short:
(i) if aliases really used path first and FSRef *only if there is nothing
on the path*, I would prefer them to symlinks for the GUI myself!!! They
don't, though (actually, I do believe they are better in OS9, but it would
not get us farther than saying how nice was Workspace Manager ;)))
(ii) if they could automagically behave as softlinks to their paths when
acessed through standard API, there would remain no problem with them
altogether!
The only remaining question seems to be why the hell Apple did not do that
ages ago?!?
> NeXTStep had the ability to have a different icon when the folder was
open?
So far as I can remember -- which goes back to '92 or so -- it had, always.
And the icons supported alpha channel, incidentally; that's no Quartz
invention either.
> So did Classic Mac OS, so why doesn't OS X have this?! I always kinda
figured it was a NeXT
> thing to have the same icon in both cases
Actually, there is pretty small number of cases when NeXT GUI was less
luxurious than OS Classic one. Not that there are none, mind you, but they
are quite rare.
> and that someone decided to go with that instead of the Mac way... what
the hell?
Yup, "what the hell" seems to be the leitmotiv of using OSX :))) At least
from an NeXTStep user's perspective...
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