On 2013 Mar 20, at 10:57, Matt Neuburg <m...@tidbits.com> wrote: > I recently broke my own app … by turning off Spotlight!
Nice, Matt! Yes, Spotlight is great - when it works - but I've always felt that it was a tad presumptuous of Apple to provide an API for *developing* with it. It's fuzzy even when it's *on*. To the original question, I don't think there's an easy way to do this. I don't think Launch Services remembers any more than the most recently-recognized version. The only way to do this may be to search the whole drive, stopping each time you find a directory (package) which looks like an app (.app extension, presence of Contents/Info.plist, etc.), and examining the CFBundleIdentifier in that Info.plist. It can be done using PBCatalogSearchAsync(), as in these demos… https://github.com/jerrykrinock/ClassesObjC/blob/master/SSYCarbonSearcher.m https://github.com/jerrykrinock/SSYCarbonSearcher but such a search takes minutes, not seconds, especially for a large non-SSD mechanical drive. _______________________________________________ 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
