On 2 Jan 2008, at 1:58 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On 2 Jan 2008, at 1:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>>>> >>>>> The alias pointing to a >>>>> symlink probably needs to be resolved recursively >>>>> (FSResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags doesn't seem to work), but >>>>> aliases >>>>> pointing to aliases appear to work. >>>> >>>> What do you mean it doesn't work? It retruns an error? Or does it >>>> return the symlink? And what do you mean with work? Dp you mean >>>> that >>>> an alias pointing to an alias file resolves to the target of the >>>> alias file? >>> >>> Ignore that; it does work (alias file pointing to alias file >>> resolves >>> to target, and alias file pointing to symlink resolves to target). >>> >>> -- >>> adam >> >> I would then say that it doesn't work, because it makes it impossible >> to store an alias pointing to an alias (or symlink) if we want to. > > I was referring to getting the content of the file for the FVIcon. On > the BibDesk side, yeah, that's a problem, but maybe it could be > resolved by passing FALSE for resolveAliasChains in > FSResolveAliasFile?
You talking about resolving finder alias files? On the BibDesk (linked file) side, what is relevant is resolving an AliasHandle. So how does an AliasHandle pointing to an alias or symlink file resolve? Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
