At 23:40 +0900 10/24/07, Gavin Brock wrote:
>I've written some code to handle relocating of user home folders, in
particular, the rewriting of full paths in preference files. For the
majority of applications, this all works sweetly with Foundation.pm and
the usual NSDictionary calls.
>
>However I am running into issues with the Finder sidebar. The
"useritems" in the sidebar plist are based on "aliases" - with no POSIX
file paths at all (like Dock has).
>
>I gather this is all Carbon magic, and I have been wandering round the
Macperl docs without much success. I'm guessing that Mac::Files might be
the right area.
>
>Does anyone know what calls I could use to parse and edit the alias data
(which I currently have extracted into temp files)?
AppleScript? It does have a "POSIX path of" command which can be applied
to a Finder alias. There is the osascript tool which is a bit easier to
use than Apple's script editor. The AppleScript dictionary in Finder has
been improved a whole lot and might contain cl***** and methods for
sidebar items.
--
Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.
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