Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
- Subject: Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:16:10 +0200
On 15.08.2007, at 20:27, email@hidden wrote:
I am attempting to write a program (actually, a service) that will
allow the user to print the contents of the currently active
Desktop window.
The only problem I'm having is that I do not know how I can get a
path to the active desktop window. My program accepts a path to a
directory and then renders its expanded contents to an outlineview
which I then print.
Desktop window? There is only one desktop window, it's created by
the Finder and filled with the selected desktop background picture. I
don't think you'd ever have several of these, but if you want to
print the contents of that somehow, I guess your best bet would be
asking the Finder via AppleScript for the names of the files in there.
A little less future-safe, but probably slightly more efficient
might be to just scan the user's desktop folder for its file list,
and then parse the Finder preferences or com.apple.sidebar.plist or
wherever that info is saved to detect what other items should be
shown on the desktop (Finder has prefs deciding what to show).
Is that really what you're trying to do? Sounds rather pointless to
me, and "active desktop window" sounds like you mean something
else... do you mean the active Finder window? It would really help if
you looked at Apple's docs some and cleared up your terminology.
Especially since that may mean that someone could give you a useful
answer.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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