[lucylawless]

ok, I need to create an FSSpec in order to save a file with the Quicktime function:

Movie FlattenMovieData (
Movie theMovie,
long movieFlattenFlags,
const FSSpec *theFile,
OSType creator,
ScriptCode scriptTag,
long createMovieFileFlags);

Can anyone tell me how to create such a structure (and initialize it with actual data)?

thanks

[edit:]
little update:
I have actually managed now to get myself an FSSpec and to save an actual file, using this function from QTText, a sample app from Apple:

myErr = NavPutFile(NULL, &myReply, &myDialogOptions, myEventUPP, MovieFileType, 'TVOD', NULL);

to get a NavReplyRecord of myReply, and then

myErr = AEGetNthPtr(&(myReply.selection), 1, typeFSS, &myKeyword, &myActualType, theFSSpecPtr, sizeof(FSSpec), &myActualSize);

this gets me a valid FSSpec by passing an empty FSSpec pointed to by theFSSpecPtr. I could just work with this, except that the user has to go through a Carbon save dialog for each file to be saved. Isn't it possible to create an FSSpec from just a path?

[Chuckit]

Take a look at the Carbon File Manager documentation. Specifically, I think you'll be interested in the functions FSPathMakeRef() and FSGetCatalogInfo().

[lucylawless]

ah yes. thank you. Incidentally, I had found an example before posting this thread, of a cocoa method that used this combo, but for some reason it threw an exception on the FSGetCatalogInfo(). But it works now. I guess was using the wrong voodoo chants and hexes that day