RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
- Subject: RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
- From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:05:38 -0400
At 6:47 PM -0400 7/4/06, Bruce Fancher wrote:
Um, no it's not portable. Even I can copy the file to a non-Mac machine I
can't do anything with it.
Well that's an application problem.
If you had a version of Safari for that platform the Safari specific
data in the file would conceivably be rather useful
If I double-click on a .webloc file on a Windows
machine, nothing will happen.
As would be expected. It's application specific data.
That Safari *also* reads another applications file is no different
than Pages reading Word files. But Word doesn't read Pages files.
If I double-click on a .url file on a Mac, it
will open. This is because, for once, Microsoft did the right thing and
stores web links in plain text files that can be read anywhere, whereas
Apple is using a proprietary solution that adds absolutely no value.
No that was just an application decision.
Many other browsers can't read either file.
In any event, the question was not how do I read the data out of the
resource fork. I've already figured out how to do that using some
cockamamie Carbon API.
Ah. I get your issue now. It's not technical ;)
The question is, given the parameters of what I'm
trying to do, what's the best way to receive a notification when a file of a
particular type is created (or closed)? I don't want to preserve the fork,
I want to delete it and replace it with a simple, elegant, cross-platform,
human-readable text file.
Why not use launchd?
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-dhan
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