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Re: Spotlight enabling of Preference Panel
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Re: Spotlight enabling of Preference Panel


  • Subject: Re: Spotlight enabling of Preference Panel
  • From: Andy Matuschak <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:49:35 -0500

I don't believe there's any documentation on this, but a quick look at some of Apple's preference panes made it seem like you'd need to do a couple things. First, create a .searchTerms file for each of your localized directories (English.lproj, etc.)

This file is a plist containing a number of dictionaries, which contain a single array with the key "localizableStrings". This array contains a number of dictionaries, each with two keys: index (the value of which is the search terms separated by commas) and title, the resulting query title. Here's a sample .plist structure:

Root
	familyControlsPref (dictionary)
		localizableStrings (array) =
			0 (dictionary)
				index (string) = "permission, prevent, control"
				title (string) = "Restrict users"
			1 (dictionary)
				index (string) = "chat, instant, messaging"
				title (string) = "Limit iChat access"
	...

Then add to your preference pane's info.plist the key NSPrefPaneSearchParameters with the parameter of your .searchTerms filename minus the extension. That is, if you named your plist something.searchTerms, the value should be something.

Keep in mind that I've not actually tried any of this: it just seems to be the way the system works from my observations of Apple's pref panes. I hope this helps.

- Andy Matuschak


On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:

Could someone please point me to an document/example which will explain how to add spotlight search terms to Preference Panel?
Thanks,
Andrei Tchijov


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