How do you programmatically put folder icons on the Finder sidebar, given that you have to use a custom icon for the folder?

Question

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

Answer 1

I don't know about the icons but I add items to the sidebar using the EBLaunchServices wrapper which is available open source here:

https://github.com/Eric-Bro/EBLaunchServices

It is very easy to use. For instance to add a mounted OSXFUSE volume to the sidebar you call:

NSURL* volumeUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/Volumes/MyVolume"];
[EBLaunchServices addItemWithURL:volumeUrl toList:kLSSharedFileListFavoriteVolumes];