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I'm trying to implement drag and drop from the Finder into an NSTableView of my app. The setup uses an NSTableView , an array controller which acts as a datasource using Cocoa bindings to a Core Data store. I did the following, basically following various blog posts I found on SO and other sites: In the awakeFromNib of my view controller I call: [[self sourcesTableView] registerForDraggedTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObjects: NSPasteboardTypePNG, nil]]; I subclassed NSArrayController and added the following methods to my subclass (the reasoning for subclassing is that the array controller needs to

I'm trying to programmatically launch an OSX Finder window from an Xcode project. I need the window to open to a specific folder and have specific files within that folder automatically selected. Does anyone know how to do this in either objective c, applescript, or Finder command-line parameters? Thanks! Wevah Objective-C version: NSArray *fileURLs = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:fileURL1, /* ... */ nil]; [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] activateFileViewerSelectingURLs:fileURLs]; $ open -R <path-to-reveal> Another AppleScript flavor - the Finder's reveal command will both open a window to the

I noticed that the command line 'zip' tool and Mac OS X's 'Compress XXX' option (available via right click in finder) are giving different output files. Not only is the size of the file a few hundred bytes bigger but the content is significantly different as well. How can I find out what command the Finder is using for compression? Take a look at An AppleScript to compress a Finder selection article. try tell application "Finder" set theSelection to the selection set selectionCount to count of theSelection if selectionCount is greater than 1 then error "Please select only one Finder item

I would like to add a new item to the Finder sidebar. I found out that the Finder keeps the list of "places" in `~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. I was able to read the file using Carbon API and saw that each item had Name, icon and alias. Using a 3rd party application such as PlistEdit Pro I was able to update the alias. My question is how to update the alias using Carbon API. Was not able to find a way to create alias that will open in Finder. It seem that both Dropbox and PlistEditor Pro was able to find the way. Asmus Take a look here : The Shared File List API is new to

I'm trying to set the colored labels shown by the finder. The only function I know is setResourceValue. But this needs localized names! I could image my mother language and english as well, but all others I don't know. I can't believe, that this should be the way. Is the are translation function, which takes a standard parameter like an enum or int and delivers the localized color name? I have an running part, but only for two languages (German and English): let colorNamesEN = [ "None", "Gray", "Green", "Purple", "Blue", "Yellow", "Red", "Orange" ] let colorNamesDE = [ "", "Grau", "Grün",

Am currently working on a project, and though I can add sidebar items by adding to the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file then restarting Finder, I can't seem to know how to make the folder icons show up using its assigned custom icon. Can anyone point me to a link or a solution that would make me do this? Thanks a bunch in advance! There's no supported way to do this using pure Cocoa. Use the LSSharedFileList API, instead. It's the supported way to manage the sidebar lists, and you can provide a custom icon (as an IconRef from Icon Services) when you insert an item. I don't know about the

One can tag files and folders with a color in the Mac OS X Finder. Is there a way to do this from a shell script? This shell script takes the file or folder name as its first argument and the label index (0 for no label, 1 for red, ..., 7 for gray) as its second argument. #!/bin/sh osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to set label index of alias POSIX file \"`cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$1")" && printf '%s\n' "$(pwd -P)/$(basename -- "$1")"`\" to $2" More directly, if $filename is a shell variable with the absolute path name of the file or folder to be labeled and $label is a shell variable

Is there something similar to the "Open Command Window Here" Windows Powertoy for Mac OS? I've found a couple plugins through a google search but wanted to see what works best for developers out there. Chris Page As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal includes exactly this functionality as a Service. As with most Services, these are disabled by default, so you'll need to enable this to make it appear in the Services menu. System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services Enable New Terminal at Folder . There's also New Terminal Tab at Folder , which will create a tab in the frontmost Terminal