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Re: Finding an App by file id?
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Re: Finding an App by file id?


  • Subject: Re: Finding an App by file id?
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:41:14 -0600
  • Mail-followup-to: Rams <email@hidden>, email@hidden

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:29:48PM -0500, Rams wrote:
> Is there a way in Cocoa to find an app by its file id? Give a method
> "CHIM" and it produces the path to Chimera.app, or Navigator.app, or
> Camino.app or whatever the heck it's named this week, for instance?
> Very easy to do in AppleScript, but I'm having no luck finding
> something similar in Cocoa.

One thing to be aware of - not all applications in OS X have
creators. Some which don't have creators have bundle identifiers
(e.g. com.apple.Finder), and some have neither.

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=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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