Re: Trying to create an alias file by using the new NSURL methods available with Mac OS X 10.6 !
Re: Trying to create an alias file by using the new NSURL methods available with Mac OS X 10.6 !
- Subject: Re: Trying to create an alias file by using the new NSURL methods available with Mac OS X 10.6 !
- From: rohan a <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:46:35 +0530
Hi,
Thanks for the response.
I used kCFStringEncodingASCII, since I am passing a char* strings for the
filename and alias name through my program.
Thanks
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Sean McBride <email@hidden>wrote:
> On 1/13/10 10:42 PM, rohan a said:
>
> >int CreateAlias(const char *target, const char *aliasname)
> >{
> > CFStringRef Ref1 = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, target,
> >kCFStringEncodingASCII);
>
> Don't use kCFStringEncodingASCII, filenames can have non-ASCII characters.
>
> Save yourself the trouble of all these conversions, and just use the
> NDAlias classes/categories. See here:
> <http://github.com/nathanday/ndalias>
>
> It doesn't currently support bookmarks, but a patch would be welcome
> (and pretty easy to add)!
>
> >Would it be possible to create an alias for a non-existent file ?
>
> No. But if its parent folder exists, you could create an alias to the
> parent folder and store the filename.
>
> Lastly, please don't post the same message to two lists. Not everyone
> is subscribed to both.
>
> --
> ____________________________________________________________
> Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
> Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
> Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
>
>
>
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