I'd guess FFI would get you there faster? The functions in  
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ 
Folder_Manager/index.html look promising ...

- Bert -

Am 05.04.2005 um 23:44 schrieb John M McIntosh:

> When I looked at it a couple of years ago the problem was
>
> a) X windows interfacing (well that can be #ifdef out)
> b) main(args) That was put into the source code
> c) HFS+ file names. However we now have an internal vm api to convert  
> HFS+ to Posix UTF-8 file names, and posix to HFS+ (this to be pushed  
> out later this week).
>
> Worst case is you can use applescript to invoke shell scripts to  
> return values.
>
> On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Cees de Groot wrote:
>
>> Our app has some OS-dependent classes that return, for that platform,  
>> the directory where data should be stored, a directory where  
>> documents can be temporarily created, etcetera. For Unix, we use the  
>> OSProcessPlugin (so we can return ${HOME}/.dgv, for example); for  
>> Windows, we use FFI and Win32 API calls.
>>
>> I'm now trying to 'port' the thing to Mac OS X. Assuming that we can  
>> just crash&burn on classic Mac OS for the time being (if that would  
>> make a difference...), what would be the easiest way to implement  
>> this on Mac OS X?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Cees
>>
>>
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