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Evinyatar · Feb 22, 2002, 06:26 AM

I used to use AppleEvents to get the Finder's selection in MacOS 9 but this has stopped working in OS X. The returned list has a correct count (the count of the selected items in the Finder) but I can't do anything with the items in the list itself?
The AppleEvent used is 'getd'/'core', with '----'/'sele' objectspecifier, and 'rtyp'/typeFSRef (also tried 'rtyp'/typeFSS). No matter what I try, whatever is in that list will not be used as a FSRef or an FSSpec.
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this without using AppleScript (it's so damn slow) ?

Evinyatar · Feb 28, 2002, 04:41 AM

Aw, anyone? It's quite urgent.

Apocalypse · Feb 28, 2002, 08:23 AM

What are you trying to do? Is this just you selecting things in the Finer and wanting your App to take notice or are you trying to drag & drop selections onto your app or something like that?

I don't know how to handle the former but I have done work with things like the latter if that is what you need.

Jeff.

seb2 · Feb 28, 2002, 08:51 AM

might be a bit dirty, but using /usr/bin/osascript from an nstask seems to work...

Evinyatar · Mar 1, 2002, 05:27 AM

Originally posted by Apocalypse:
<STRONG>What are you trying to do? Is this just you selecting things in the Finer and wanting your App to take notice or are you trying to drag & drop selections onto your app or something like that?

I don't know how to handle the former but I have done work with things like the latter if that is what you need.

Jeff.</STRONG>

It's the former. My app shows previews of pictures that get selected in the Finder.

Evinyatar · Mar 3, 2002, 05:47 AM

Been doing some research and it looks like the MacOS X Finder just plainly ignores the requested type specifier and always returns something that resembles the AppleScript description of a file; like { document "bla" of folder "bleh" of startup disk }, but in something I can't quite place. It contains a bunch of OSTypes (seld, want, form, from, enum, obj, docf, cfol, indx, utxt) and UniCode text for the names of each item in the description. Each item returned by the Finder starts of with a list of entries which are either pointers to a document (docf), folder (cfol), or volume (disc/sdsk) descriptions later on in the file, starting with the docf (contains 'docf', 'from', 'obj ') and ending with the disk ('disc', 'from', 'null'). Then come the descriptions to which these items point, containing the OSTypes 'enum', 'indx', and a UniText string for the name of the item.
I don't know how to resolve this thing to a FSRef, anyone have any ideas?