Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread James Merkel
I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. Note, the

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's  openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by  NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's  openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by  NSWorkspace. If I take

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, James Merkel wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread James Merkel
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread James Merkel
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, James Merkel wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916;]; (Just FYI, the -stringWithString call is redundant. You can just assign the

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread James Merkel
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916 ]; (Just FYI, the -stringWithString

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Howard Siegel
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:20, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@ http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)”]; It’s not the parens that are illegal, it’s the

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Christensen
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:32 PM, James Merkel wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString

Re: Malformed URL string in openURL

2011-06-07 Thread James Merkel
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Steve Christensen wrote: stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding Yeah, I just found that method about an hour ago! Not related to Cocoa -- but It turns out after playing around with this with mapquest and google maps, adding a label can