Hi Jacque, I read the link and I think whey talk about "iTunes controllers", they mean apps that communicate directly with iTunes, not sure what happens if you run an Applescript to do that.
The program I've written doesn't communicate with iTunes at all. It gets all the music information by parsing the iTunes Library.xml file and then doesn't touch anything else, other than play the files of course. I've run it now as a standalone on OSX 10.7, OSX 10.9, and OSX 10.10 and it seems to work fine on all of them so I guess I'm not breaking any sandbox rules. I know there are some very knowledgeable people on the list when it comes to sandboxing so maybe they will comment. I should say, this isn't something I was planning on selling or even distributing although I might offer it as a freebie on my web site since it's worked out pretty well. I started it as an exercise in using the Livecode player control but, as these "quick" projects do, it rapidly developed into learning more than I really wanted to deal with on remote file accessing, unicode, and a few other things. But I guess that will all be good knowledge for the future. Anyway, thanks again to all the advice from everyone. It all contributed to figuring out how to solve the issue. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:49 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > If it works then my answer doesn't apply. But I got curious and did some > research on the OS X sandbox. Most of what I found was old info but there's > a reasonably readable explanation here: > > <http://www.cultofmac.com/113977/os-x-lion-sandboxing- > is-a-killjoy-destined-to-ruin-our-mac-experience/> > > Which mentions iTunes controllers: > > "As pointed out by MacRumors, there are other apps that will be negatively > impacted by sandboxing: > > • iTunes controllers (Tagalicious, CoverSutra)" > > But apparently you've got it working. I'm not sure about LC 7 file paths, > haven't gone there yet. > > > On 1/19/2015 3:26 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Hi Jacque, >> >> Using the "/Volumes" way of opening the file worked! >> >> I ran into one issue - some of the filenames have unicode characters in >> them. I searched the list and found this solution from Bjornke: >> >> put unidecode(uniencode(tVar,"UTF8")) into tFilename >> >> That makes things work whether the file name has unicode characters in it >> or not. >> >> This, of course, is using pre-7.0 technology. Ou of interest, if I used >> 7.0 how would I set about translating a string with unicode characters in >> it into a form acceptable as an OSX filename? >> >> In answer to your thought about sandboxing, I'm doing exactly the same as >> iTunes - accessing music files in the ~/Music/iTunes folder so I assume >> they would be within the app's sandbox. >> >> >> Pete >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> >> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >> >> Right, yes I did try that and all works fine using the contents of the it >>> variable that comes back. It uses the "/Volumes" format for the mounted >>> folder/file. >>> >>> Problem is though that I already have the location of the file I want to >>> play (but in "file://" URL format so don't want to prompt for it. >>> >>> Maybe I can get this working by somehow transposing the "file://" format >>> file URL I already have into a "/Volumes" format. I'll give that a try >>> and >>> report back. >>> >>> Pete >>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >>> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >>> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM, J. Landman Gay < >>> jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>> >>> On January 19, 2015 1:14:04 PM CST, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks for all the suggestions. Still trying to get this working. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I can't remember if you tried this yet but what happens if you do an >>>> "answer file" dialog and use the file path that comes back? >>>> -- >>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
