site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Mark - Any idea what I'm missing here? Thanks!! Mark On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Paul Miller wrote: -- Paul Miller | paul@fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... Mark Krenek wrote: I've written an installer plugin to do this same thing - find all target apps and let the user pick which one to update. This is done in code in the plugin. NSMetadataQuery is Spotlight. I use it to find ALL applications. Then I search through that list looking for the specific apps I want (by bundle identifier or name). It may be possible to configure a query that does that automatically. Here's basically what I do: query = [[NSMetadataQuery alloc] init]; [query setSearchScopes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:targetVolume]]; [query setPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"kMDItemContentTypeTree = 'com.apple.application-bundle'"]]; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(_queryNotification:) name:nil object:query]; [query startQuery]; My _queryNotification routine is where I scan the results. Got this all working and building a datasource for a NSTableView which shows the supported applications. The first column uses a Checkbox formatter so it can be toggled on/off. I've implemented a tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row method but when I click on one of the check-boxes, it is never called, and the app crashes down in objc_msgSend in [NSCell setObjectValue:]. Karl Kuehn wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Paul Miller wrote: I'm working on an Installer plugin that will install my stuff into multiple copies of Photoshop (ie Photoshop CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4, etc). So I want to search for and find all copies of an application named "Photoshop" with a certain signature. I think LSGetApplicationForInfo() will only get me the "default" one. What's the best way to search for ALL of them, noting that they might not all be in /Applications? You probably want to use Spotlight (if you can afford to go 10.4 and above). You can do this in a script with mdfind. Building the right find command can be a bit of an art, but you probably will only want to look for applications with a name matching a pattern. But you can do more, and even find things where the user has changed the outside "name". Yeah, we're shooting for 10.4 and up - sounds like a good approach. Can you suggest how I could execute this script (preinstall/preupgrade?) and query the results in my installer plugin? Or should I just launch the script directly within the plugin and parse the results (popen?)? Thanks for any tips. This is all pretty new to me, though I am making some decent progress on my installer plugin UI. -- Paul Miller | paul@fxtech.com <mailto:paul@fxtech.com> | www.fxtech.com <http://www.fxtech.com> | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:Installer-dev@lists.apple.com>) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/mark%40aspyr.com This email sent to mark@aspyr.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com