RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
- Subject: RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
- From: "Bruce Fancher" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:42:07 -0400
Because, unless I am mistaken, launchd can only watch a single directory. I
want to watch any directory, anywhere on the file system, or at least,
anywhere in my home directory.
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Shoop [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:06 PM
To: Bruce Fancher; email@hidden
Subject: RE: Advice wanted on how to proceed . . .
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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