Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
- Subject: Re: six things I wasn't able to do with Cocoa
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:51:43 -0700
On May 27, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Bill Appleton wrote:
> there were some things i
> noticed that i couldn't do easily in Cocoa or any other 64 bit OSX API.
Cocoa doesn’t claim to do everything. There are a lot of tasks that should be done using lower level APIs.
> *1) I can't hide a file, or test if a file is hidden*
> I had to resort to FSGetCatalogInfo
I’m pretty sure FSGetCatalogInfo is available in 64-bit. It’s not deprecated and it’s not part of the High-Level Toolbox.
> *2)** **I **can't **get the current caret blink rate in milliseconds*
> I used to call GetCaretTime, but now I just use 500 milliseconds. Eeek!
OS X hasn’t ever had a UI to change the caret blink time, so I think you can safely hardcode it.
(Although I can’t think of why you’d need this unless you’re implementing your own text editing system from scratch, which is a pretty scary thought. If you’re doing that, there are a zillion other expected text behaviors you’ll need to get right, that are a lot more important than the blink rate.)
—Jens_______________________________________________
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