Re: Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file
Re: Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file
- Subject: Re: Reading an AliasHandle from a Finder alias file
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:30:56 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On 5/26/09 2:13 PM, Erg Consultant said:
>Is there a way to read AliasHandle data from an OS X Finder alias file -
>sort of like the way one could create an AliasHandle in memory in the
>old days by reading a alias resource from OS 9 alias files?
>
>The Alias Manager APIs only seem to provide routines for determining if
>a file is an alias, or for resolving it - but not for creating an
>AliasHandle from the contents of an alias file directly.
>
>FSFollowFinderAlias kind of does what I want, but not really. If I read
>the entire data fork of a Finder alias will the read data be a valid
>AliasRecord or do I need to do some further manipulation on the read data?
You should ask on the Carbon list.
In any case, maybe NDAlias does want you need:
<http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml>
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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