Re: Scriptable Network Preferences
Re: Scriptable Network Preferences
- Subject: Re: Scriptable Network Preferences
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:11:35 +0000
At 18:50 +0000 25/11/07, email@hidden wrote:
Would it be correct to assume that the newly scriptable network
preferences features of Leopard are meant to provide read-only
access to existing configurations and that there is still no Apple
sanctioned method for creating new ones aside from mucking around
with the preferences files directly?
Please don't mess with preference files directly, especially the
networking ones.
There's been an supported API for manipulating network preferences
since 10.1 (the SystemConfiguration framework). However, I seems
that you're working in the scripting space, and thus this C-based API
is inappropriate.
One option, new in 10.5, is the <x-man-page://8/networksetup> tool.
You could run this from AppleScript using "do shell script".
With regards the Network Preferences suite in "System Events",
looking at the dictionary it seems that this should support
modification. I did some quick tests and couldn't get it to work.
I'm curious about this myself, so I've asked the engineer at Apple
who works on this stuff. I'll post a follow up if I get any joy.
S+E
--
Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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