Getting and editing Finder's Show Info Comments

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macrophyllum Mac Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Vermont, USA Status: Offline	Dec 4, 2001, 09:34 PM
	OK here is the (hopefully easy) challenge: I want to be able to get a string from the Finder's Show Info pane comments field. You know, if you select a file in the finder and hit Command I it brings up the Show Info pane and there is a little comments text field. I want my app to be able to get the string from that, edit it, and then write it back to the file it came from using the Cocoa Java API's. Anyone got any advice? BTW, I am a novice programmer so hopefully answers won't be too hard to follow. Thanks in advance.