Re: Setting Finder comments and keywords
Re: Setting Finder comments and keywords
- Subject: Re: Setting Finder comments and keywords
- From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:18:11 -0700
On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Chris Idou wrote:
How does one programmatically change Finder comments and keywords?
I found this comment about MDItemSetAttribute...
[...]
The other suggestion I've seen is to send Apple events to the Finder
to change these things. Since I'm writing a background application
it seems terribly messy to be asking a foreground app to be doing
stuff for me. Would it pop up the Finder window? That would be
really ugly.
Any comments? Apple event code would be gratefully accepted if that
is the only way.
You shouldn't have to resort to undocumented API. Look for
setComment: in this file:
https://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk/NSFileManager_BDSKExtensions.m
The implementation is based off of OmniAppKit and MoreAppleEvents;
it's quite fast and does not activate the Finder, although it might
cause problems for users that replace the Finder. It looks like all
of the functions are in CoreServices, so should be safe for a
background app.
--
Adam
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