Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
- Subject: Re: Spotlight -- Metadata importer vs file package containing rtfd files
- From: Ali Lalani <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:38:45 -0400
For now you basically need to leave a trail file (not sure what to
call it) and update that file when the data in the sql lite
database changes etc.
For example in iCal the calendars are stored as they normally are
but, in Library/Caches/Metadata/iCal/ are the spotlight files that
get indexed and presented to the user, when one of these files is
selected iCal starts up and should select the event for that day etc..
Delicious Library is doing exactly the same thing.
Vince
Thanks for the tips Vince, i've made good headway, and my plugin
seems to be working now.
I do have a couple more questions though...
a) The objects i'm representing in spotlight are not "documents" at
all, at least in the eyes of the user, even though i suppose the
"trail file" is a document. I'd like to obscure this from the user
somehow but there's a header that pops into the spotlight window when
you expand the item for more info, "Where", and gives the file path.
Is there a way to remove this, since it is irrelevant?
b) I noticed that for some reason when i create a path: '~/Library/
Caches/[my folder heirarchy similar to Address Book]' and add my
files to it, spotlight refuses to index them. However when i used '~/
Library/Caches/MetaData/[my folder heirarchy]' it did. Why is this?
Permissions are the same for both. It's not a big deal because now i
have it in the latter folder and it works fine, but it should
probably be noted in future documentation if it's not already(and i
missed it somehow).
c) My objects don't really fit into the category of Documents, or
Contacts, or any of the other categories spotlight seems to have. I'd
like ideally to create my own category, is this possible, or is that
reserved for Apple? I also noted that when you expand a Contact from
address book in the Spotlight window you get some level of
interactivity such as clicking on phone numbers or email addresses to
produce some action. Can we add some interactivity to our own
Spotlight items?
Thanks in advance,
Ali
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