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Re: Spotlight Importer for files in "Project-Based" folder
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Re: Spotlight Importer for files in "Project-Based" folder


  • Subject: Re: Spotlight Importer for files in "Project-Based" folder
  • From: SA Dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:38:29 -0400


That's certainly a solution, but I thought it'd make more sense to show the project containing the search term itself, rather than several files that belong to it, which all end up opening the same project file anyway. Though that *would* solve the next question - how to tell my app to open up the project to the requested file, though I have bookmarked several other threads on that topic.


So, fellow developers, which *is* better practice in this scenario? Again, never mind the current clunkiness; it's going away in the next major version, I'm just trying to make sure it 'just works' for Spotlight in the current version. From a user standpoint, would you rather see five different files belonging to the project (which you can't really manipulate unless you open the main project file) or just the main project file they belong to?



On Jun 13, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

On 13 Jun 2005, at 4:05 PM, SA Dev wrote:


So, what I want is to be able to locate text in a supporting file, but have Spotlight return the main project file as the result of the find. The logic to determine the main project file isn't a problem (it's clunky, but not really a problem), but the user cannot directly open the supporting files.


If it's so all-fired easy (if clunky) to determine the project file from the constituent, why not have your application open the project file when given a constituent file to open? That way, Spotlight acts on the file that gets indexed, and there's no need for tricks.


    -- F



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