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Re: Finding an application ?
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Re: Finding an application ?


  • Subject: Re: Finding an application ?
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:54:23 -0600
  • Mail-followup-to: Alec Carlson <email@hidden>, email@hidden

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:30:57PM -0600, Alec Carlson wrote:
> Anyone have any idea how I can map an application signature to the
> applications location on disk ?

LaunchServices is the OS X equivalent of the desktop database. The
functions in LaunchServices.h are reasonably self-explanatory. You
may find my 'launch' utility useful as it exposes virtually all the
functionality of LaunchServices from the command line:

<http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/#launch>

Source code (BSDish license) is included. Some examples of its use
with application signatures (creators):

% launch -nc prvw
/Applications/Preview.app
% launch -c prvw appswitch.pdf
[Preview opens the PDF document]

--
=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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