Re: Is it possible to read your own quarantine info after launch?

2014-11-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
Regarding the problem you are trying to solve, which is to determine where an app was downloaded from, Freshcode released a little framework which did this a few years ago. You might want to contact them, http://madefresh.ca, and ask about their "Breadcrumb” framework. ___

Re: Is it possible to read your own quarantine info after launch?

2014-11-28 Thread Ken Thomases
On Nov 28, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Ben Staveley-Taylor wrote: > I want to determine from which server my application was downloaded, on its > first use. (The app is hosted on many servers and I want to work out which > one to connect back to.) This seems like an _extremely_ fragile approach. Perh

[PSA] Non-layer backed views + scrolling + visual artifacts

2014-11-28 Thread Seth Willits
UGH. So my app was doing this: http://www.sethwillits.com/temp/ScrollingWeirdness.mp4 … very often, and sometimes dramatically worse than that (but also sometimes much more subtle). For subtle, stick these two images in separate tabs and switch back and forth: http://sethwillits.com/temp/Scrol

Is it possible to read your own quarantine info after launch?

2014-11-28 Thread Ben Staveley-Taylor
I want to determine from which server my application was downloaded, on its first use. (The app is hosted on many servers and I want to work out which one to connect back to.) The Mac OS adds quarantine info to downloaded files. This is handled by Launch Services, so I can use LSCopyItemAttribu

Re: [BUG] Documents (sandboxed too) won't open from iCloud Drive

2014-11-28 Thread Sean McBride
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:15:14 -0500, Jerry Krinock said: >If I navigate to a text file in my iCloud Drive and File > Open with… >from the contextual menu, it works with TextEdit, Safari, Firefox, iCab >or Opera 12, but fails with my nonsandboxed (I think) BBEdit, or HexEdit. You can easily tell if

Re: [BUG] Documents (sandboxed too) won't open from iCloud Drive

2014-11-28 Thread Jerry Krinock
I take back what I said about opening documents in iCloud Drive working if you use File > Open… from within the app. It usually doesn’t. The possible results from File > Open… are, randomly, one of: • Once in a while, it works. • It will silently fail to open. • It will fail to open and com.ap