On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Matthias Buercher wrote:
applications could write and read from the harddisk, the user can
browse fromwithin the finder and copy, move and delete.
my application would provide listings when the user opens a folder
and deal with files dropped to a folder.
i know i could get far with folder actions concerning dropping a
file. but i would also act when an application tries to open a file
in that folder or a user wants to copy it by dragging it out.
i could also make an application that ressembles a window where you
can drag from and to like many ftp applications, but this still
excludes the access from other applications.
to give an example, i have seen once a media server that had images
on a raw partition, but provided them at the same time as jpeg,
tiff and bmp files on a virtual harddisk. the files however existed
only virtually and were created on the fly from the raw partition
as they were opened.
matthias
Sounds like what you want is to implement a filesystem, not just an app.
That way it's accessible by all OS X apps, including Unix ones.
This is all very low level stuff and you COULD do it if you have the
time and inclination to do so, but it's probably on par with writing
a kernel extension.
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