On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:46:15 +0100, Mike Abdullah said: >>> Sandboxed apps can resolve aliases and follow symlinks, but unless the >>> destination is within their sandbox already they do not gain access to >>> it, sadly. I recommend filing a radar requesting this. >> >> I will. >> >> Do you agree with me that pathControl:acceptDrop: should pass the >resolved alias instead of the original? Or perhaps provide a >setResolvesAliases: like NSOpenPanel does? > >I don't know really. To resolve aliases properly would require it to be >some sort of privileged UI component like NSOpenPanel. Or Apple would >have to add a new entitlement for this, or adjust how the sandbox works. >They all *work*, but the first option sucks for developers making other >similar things.
I'm pretty sure it already is a 'privileged UI component like NSOpenPanel'. In the early seeds of 10.7, there were all sorts of sandbox violations related to NSPathControl trying to draw the icons of the file hierarchy, and failing to have access to those icons. Cheers, -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
