On 15 Apr 2011, at 16:44, Ken Thomases wrote: > On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > >> Of late, I've been working to remove NSString-based paths, FSRefs, and >> Alias Manager usage in my code, in favour of NSURL. >> >> But I'm having trouble with alias files. >> >> NSOpenPanel helpfully, by default, resolves aliases before it returns >> the URL to you. But NSPathControl does not and file drops that you get >> off NSPasteboard also do not. So in many cases I need to manually check >> if a URL points to an alias file, and find the file it points to. Am I >> missing an easy/modern way to do this? > > Yes. Bookmark data is the modern replacement for alias records. The new > bookmark APIs are backward compatible with aliases, including alias files. > See the documentation for +[NSURL bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL:error:]. > You'd follow that with > -URLByResolvingBookmarkData:options:relativeToURL:bookmarkDataIsStale:error:.
Ken is right, this is the modern way to do it. If you need pre-10.6 support, look into NDAlias or BDAlias. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
