Re: Old style pathname

FROM : Nathan Day
DATE : Sun Jan 26 13:25:59 2003

Look in Core Foundation, there is a function that works with
CFStringRef which can give you a path in the form of
"MacintoshHD:myFirstFolder:mySecondFolder:myFile"

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Lorenzo Puleo wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a NSString containing the pathname of a file I took from
> NSArray *filesToOpen = [oPanel filenames];
> pathname = [filesToOpen objectAtIndex:0];
>
> /myFirstFolder/mySecondFolder/myFile
>
> Now I want to show to the user the pathname with the name of the disk
> like
> MacintoshHD/myFirstFolder/mySecondFolder/myFile
>
> Using Cocoa, if MacintoshHD is the boot volume I obtain
> /myFirstFolder/mySecondFolder/myFile
>
> and if it is not the boot volume I obtain
> /Volumes/MacintoshHD/myFirstFolder/mySecondFolder/myFile
>
> How could I do this?
> Using Carbon APIs?
> Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> --
> Lorenzo Puleo
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