r/w resource forks
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Hey folks
IIUC there is no official API to read and write resource forks from
Cocoa.
Anyone know of a framework somewhere? Couldn't find anything through
Google yet.
cheers
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Torsten -
Le 15 févr. 08 à 20:43, Torsten Curdt a écrit :> Hey folks
>
> IIUC there is no official API to read and write resource forks from
> Cocoa.
> Anyone know of a framework somewhere? Couldn't find anything through
> Google yet.
>
> cheers
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> Torsten
>
The official API to read and write resources forks from Cocoa is the
CoreServices's File Manager.
OK, this is not an obj-c API, but isn't obj-c just a C superset?
If you prefere an Obj-C class, there is NSResourceFork (http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml#ndresourcefork
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On 2/15/08 8:43 PM, Torsten Curdt said:> IIUC there is no official API to read and write resource forks from
> Cocoa.
Yes there is, the Resource Manager. But it is a C API, not and
Objective-C API.> Anyone know of a framework somewhere? Couldn't find anything through
> Google yet.
Obj-C wrapper:
<http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml#ndresourcefork>
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>> Anyone know of a framework somewhere? Couldn't find anything through
>> Google yet.
>
> Obj-C wrapper:
> <http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml#ndresourcefork>
Cool ...that wrapper looks like what I was after!!
cheers
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Torsten -
Instead of using resource forks I thought I could use a bundle. So I
have created a test.pdf folder and set the bundle bit. The original
pdf is included in the Resources section. If I could now instruct
other apps to open that original pdf inside the bundle on a double-
click/open ...that would be perfect. I would hope hand crafting a
proper Info.plist could do that. But I haven't found the right key/
documentation yet. Anyone know whether that is possible at all?
But anyway ...this is in no way related to Cocoa APIs - so I am sorry
for the OT post. (offlist answers are welcome of course :))
So this post is more: any suggestion where to ask such a question
instead?
cheers
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Torsten -
Le 17 févr. 08 à 14:08, Torsten Curdt a écrit :> Instead of using resource forks I thought I could use a bundle. So I
> have created a test.pdf folder and set the bundle bit. The original
> pdf is included in the Resources section. If I could now instruct
> other apps to open that original pdf inside the bundle on a double-
> click/open ...that would be perfect. I would hope hand crafting a
> proper Info.plist could do that. But I haven't found the right key/
> documentation yet. Anyone know whether that is possible at all?
>
> But anyway ...this is in no way related to Cocoa APIs - so I am
> sorry for the OT post. (offlist answers are welcome of course :))
>
> So this post is more: any suggestion where to ask such a question
> instead?
>
> cheers
> --
> Torsten
You should not use a well known extension for your own format. OS X,
and the Launch service use the extension to define the document type
and properties. Using pdf on a bundle will confuse the system and
other applications.
