It's "Local-Url" (case insensitive though), and it's value can be a full path
or a file:// URL. You may not see the conversion when you add this to an
existing item which already has Bdsk-... fields, or when you don't have the
conversion preferences (in Default Fields) set appropriately.
Christiaan
On Feb 19, 2010, at 21:23, Wesley Fraser wrote:
> Thanks Christiaan. I am more than happy avoiding the private methods, as it
> allows me to avoid extra source!
>
> But I a, not sure how to add files to the localURL as you mentioned. I have
> tried opening up the .bib file, and adding entries like
>
> Local-Url = {/...path...pdf}
> localURL = {/...path...pdf}
>
> Those dictionaries appear when viewing through bibdesk. But a re-save does
> nothing to create the corresponding BDSK-File entries.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 2010-02-19, at 12:11 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2010, at 20:56, Wesley Fraser wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Bibdesk Devel!
>>>
>>> I bet a bunch of you are familiar with Quicksilver. Its currently the only
>>> way I get around my mac, except when it comes to my bib. I am currently
>>> writing a simple quicksilver plugin to allow search and creation of .bib
>>> entries (and file saving) from within quicksilver. I figured the best thing
>>> to do would be to make this all forward compatible with bibdesk.
>>>
>>> I can handle entry creation and all that. The only catch is in the
>>> Bdsk-File-N entry. I have seen a bunch of stuff about the net stating this
>>> is a base64 encoded apple-uid containing string. I understand that. What I
>>> can't figure out from looking through the bibdesk-trunk is just what
>>> methods are used to encode/decode that string.
>>>
>>> So can someone either:
>>>
>>> 1) point out to me what methods are used to encode/decode that string, and
>>> in what source files they are contained?
>>> 2) With cocoa, explain how one would encode/decode that string?
>>>
>>> Thanks very much!
>>>
>>> Wes
>>
>> It's not supposed to be added outside BibDesk, this is considered private to
>> BibDesk. Perhaps it would be better to just add files in the Local-Url
>> field, which will normally be automatically converted to a linked file with
>> the default settings. But if you really want to know, all the code for
>> conversion is in BDSKLinkedFile.m (i.p. -[BDSKLinkedAliasFile
>> stringRelativeToPath:] and -[BDSKLinkedAliasFile
>> initWithBase64String:delegate:]) and NSData_BDSKExtensions.m (for base64
>> string encoding).
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>>
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