Re: Icon Overlay on Mac OSX
Re: Icon Overlay on Mac OSX
- Subject: Re: Icon Overlay on Mac OSX
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:03:31 -0500
On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Alfian Busyro wrote:
> I'm a newbie in Cocoa framework, XCode and also Obj-C.
> I'm still struggling to create an icon overlay in finder like the one in that dropbox did.
> During my investigation about this I found that dropbox was using injection method to the finder code using mach_star (https://github.com/rentzsch/mach_star). you can find the discussion in here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1294335/how-to-write-os-x-finder-plugin.
> but there's no exact example and how-to, that makes it very difficult to implement.
> And also I found this discussion too, I don't know it's related or not :
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2536878?start=0&tstart=0.
> It also makes me confused, because I'm a newbie :D .
>
> I want to ask you guy's opinion about this issue.
> And if some of you guys have an experience with it, please share it with me.
Please don’t do this kind of stuff. The use of code injection is one of the reasons I refuse to use Dropbox on OS X. It’s ugly, it’s fragile, and it’s prone to cause weird behavior and instability issues.
Charles
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