Re: Question about zipping files
Re: Question about zipping files
- Subject: Re: Question about zipping files
- From: Gideon King <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:50:57 +1000
Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before and have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no knowledge of Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that Apple Events were pretty much old technology from before OSX, but now I see that it appears that it's the foundation of AppleScript. I guess I should take time to look into these technologies sometime (I come from a NextStep/OpenStep/WebObjects background)...
Is there any particular reason you say to stay away from NSTask?
Scripting Bridge seems like an interesting option, but after having generated the headers for Finder, I could not see a command there for compressing files. I guess it's not scriptable.
Jens has confirmed that there is no limit to the length of the args for NSTask, so am planning to go with my option 1 - it's a technology I understand, and should apparently do what I need to do, and do it efficiently.
On 15/02/2010, at 4:06 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
> Gideon King (email@hidden) on 2010-02-15 00:28 said:
>
>> Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Are there any other options that I'm not aware of?
>
> NSWorkspaceCompressOperation? Sounds promising, right? But the docs
> say "This operation always returns an error"? HA! :)
>
> Did you investigate Scripting Bridge, AppleScript, or Apple Events? The
> Finder has a Compress option in its File menu, maybe you can tell Finder
> to zip for you. Stay away from NSTask when you can.
>
> Sean
>
> --
> "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government
> when it deserves it." - Mark Twain
>
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