Re: base64 NSData to NSString

FROM : Marco Cassinerio
DATE : Sat Mar 22 22:11:19 2008

On Mar 22, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

>
> On 22 Mar '08, at 1:19 PM, Marco Cassinerio wrote:
>

>> I've done what you said, but nothing changed. I get the same data 
>> content, like this:
>>
>> ImgR\362FBIL\346\326\303\331\376\247H+\222!\222C\303\351-+    
>> \377\376\377\377\377\377\222!\221\302\221\301
>>     \2161\216a
>> mfile.icnsMacintosh HD>Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/
>> Resources/mfile.icns/\377\377

>
> That's not base64. If I recall, you're looking at file aliases in a 
> plist? In that case, what you have is an NSData object containing 
> the raw data from an AliasHandle. You'll need to copy that into a 
> handle, and use the CoreServices API <Aliases.h> to get an FSRef or 
> path to the destination file. Actually, there are a couple of 
> existing Cocoa wrappers for the Aliases API, and I'd recommend 
> finding and using one of those instead, unless you're really 
> familiar with Carbon concepts like handles and FSRefs.
>
> —Jens


Thank you.

I found NDAlias http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/pages/source.xml on 
the network and it works fine.

Marco