How to Open Finder window from folder path in Cocoa

[mhz]

How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

[l0ne (on mac)]

Post by mhz
How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

What you need is the -openFile:, -openURL: or
-selectFile:inFileViewerRootedAtPath: methods of the NSWorkspace class.

- ∞

[mhz]

Post by l0ne (on mac)

Post by mhz
How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

What you need is the -openFile:, -openURL: or
-selectFile:inFileViewerRootedAtPath: methods of the NSWorkspace class.
- ∞

Exactly what I need!

Thank you.

[Simon Slavin]

On 03/12/2005, l0ne (on mac wrote in message

Post by l0ne (on mac)

Post by mhz
How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

What you need is the -openFile:, -openURL: or
-selectFile:inFileViewerRootedAtPath: methods of the NSWorkspace class.

Just to clarify that, think of the folder as if it was a file. The
application which opens folders is the Finder. So when you tell the
operating system to open a folder, it tells the Finder to open a
window showing its contents.

Simon.

[David Phillip Oster]

Post by mhz
How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD directory path in Cocoa

Here is some actual, tested, working, source code:

NSString* path = @"/Developer/Applications";
NSString* scriptString = [NSString stringWithFormat:
@"tell application \"Finder\" to open posix file \"%@\"", path];
NSAppleScript* script =
[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: scriptString];
NSDictionary* errorDict = nil;
[script executeAndReturnError: &errorDict];
[script release];


Obviously, in a real program:

You'd want to look at the autoreleased errorDict from
executeAndReturnError.

You'd need to process 'path' to escape any backslashes and double quote
characters in it.

David Phillip Oster

[Eric Albert]

Post by David Phillip Oster

Post by mhz
How to Open a Finder window showing the folder from the BSD
directory path in Cocoa

@"tell application \"Finder\" to open posix file \"%@\"", path];
NSAppleScript* script =
[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: scriptString];
NSDictionary* errorDict = nil;
[script executeAndReturnError: &errorDict];
[script release];

The NSWorkspace answer mentioned earlier in this thread is faster and
better recommended.

-Eric

[David Phillip Oster]

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Post by Eric Albert

Post by David Phillip Oster
NSAppleScript* script =
[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: scriptString];
NSDictionary* errorDict = nil;
[script executeAndReturnError: &errorDict];

...

Post by Eric Albert
The NSWorkspace answer mentioned earlier in this thread is faster and
better recommended.
-Eric

You are quite right. Thanks for the correction.

David Phillip Oster