Re: How do I get a file reference w/o relying on the path?
Re: How do I get a file reference w/o relying on the path?
- Subject: Re: How do I get a file reference w/o relying on the path?
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:30:12 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:31:03 -0700, Jens Alfke said:
>Brad, what you want is a bookmark (in 10.6) or an alias reference.
>Aliases didn't have a Cocoa API until 10.6, but the procedural API isn't
>hard to use.
There is the 3rd party NDAlias wrapper, which works quite well:
<http://github.com/nathanday/ndalias>
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:28:59 -0500, Ken Thomases said:
>Sorry. I probably shouldn't have said "deprecated". Aliases are not
>officially deprecated, as far as I know. Perhaps "superseded" is a
>better word.
It likely won't be deprecated for a long long time either, just like the
Resource Manager. Many file formats (including QuickTime's .mov) store
aliases and so Apple needs to keep this functionality "forever".
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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