NSWorkspace
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richard@brainstorm.co.uk
FredKiefer@gmx.de
Workspace class
1996-1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Software documentation for the NSWorkspace class
AppKit/NSWorkspace.h
Description forthcoming.
sharedWorkspace
Description forthcoming.
checkForRemovableMedia
Description forthcoming.
extendPowerOffBy:
requested
Description forthcoming.
fileSystemChanged
Description forthcoming.
findApplications
Updates Registered Services and File Types
fullPathForApplication:
appName
Given an application name, return the full path for
that application.
This method looks for the
application in standard locations, and if not
found there, according to MacOS-X documentation,
returns nil.
If the supplied
application name is an absolute path, returns
that path irrespective of whether such an application
exists or not. This is not the docmented
debavior in the MacOS-X documentation, but is the
MacOS-X implemented behavior.
If the
appName has an extension, it is used,
otherwise in GNUstep the standard app, debug, and
profile extensions * are tried.
getFileSystemInfoForPath:
fullPath
isRemovable:
removableFlag
isWritable:
writableFlag
isUnmountable:
unmountableFlag
description:
description
type:
fileSystemType
Description forthcoming.
getInfoForFile:
fullPath
application:
appName
type:
type
Description forthcoming.
hideOtherApplications
Description forthcoming.
iconForFile:
aPath
Description forthcoming.
iconForFileType:
fileType
Description forthcoming.
iconForFiles:
pathArray
Description forthcoming.
isFilePackageAtPath:
fullPath
Description forthcoming.
launchApplication:
appName
Calls
[-launchApplication:showIcon:autolaunch:] with arguments set to show the icon but not set it up as an autolaunch.
launchApplication:
appName
showIcon:
showIcon
autolaunch:
autolaunch
Launches the specified application (unless it is
alreeady running)
mountNewRemovableMedia
Description forthcoming.
mountedLocalVolumePaths
Description forthcoming.
mountedRemovableMedia
Description forthcoming.
noteFileSystemChanged
Description forthcoming.
noteFileSystemChanged:
path
Description forthcoming.
noteUserDefaultsChanged
Simply makes a note that the user defaults database
has changed.
notificationCenter
Returns the workspace notification center
openFile:
fullPath
Description forthcoming.
openFile:
fullPath
fromImage:
anImage
at:
point
inView:
aView
Description forthcoming.
openFile:
fullPath
withApplication:
appName
Description forthcoming.
openFile:
fullPath
withApplication:
appName
andDeactivate:
flag
Description forthcoming.
openTempFile:
fullPath
Description forthcoming.
openURL:
url
Description forthcoming.
performFileOperation:
operation
source:
source
destination:
destination
files:
files
tag:
tag
Description forthcoming.
selectFile:
fullPath
inFileViewerRootedAtPath:
rootFullpath
Description forthcoming.
slideImage:
image
from:
fromPoint
to:
toPoint
Animating an Image- slides it from one point on
the screen to another.
unmountAndEjectDeviceAtPath:
path
Description forthcoming.
userDefaultsChanged
Returns a flag to say if the defaults database has
changed since the last time this method was called.
Software documentation for the NSWorkspace(GNUstep)
category
AppKit/NSWorkspace.h
Description forthcoming.
appIconForApp:
appName
Returns the application icon for the given app. Or
null if none defined or appName is not a
valid application name.
bundleForApp:
appName
Returns the application bundle for the named
application. Accepts either a full path to an
app or just the name. The extension (.app,.debug,
.profile) is optional, but if provided it will be
used.
Returns nil if the
specified app does not exist as requested.
getBestAppInRole:
role
forExtension:
ext
Returns the 'best' application to open a file with
the specified extension using the given role
. If the role is nil then apps
which can edit are preferred but viewers are also
acceptable. Uses a user preferred app or picks
any good match.
getBestIconForExtension:
ext
Returns the path set for the icon matching the
image by
[
-setBestIcon:forExtension:
]
infoForExtension:
ext
Gets the applications cache (generated by the
make_services tool) and looks up the special
entry that contains a dictionary of all file
extensions recognised by GNUstep applications.
Then finds the dictionary of applications that can
handle our file and returns it.
locateApplicationBinary:
appName
Requires the path to an application wrapper as an
argument, and returns the full path to the
executable.
setBestApp:
appName
inRole:
role
forExtension:
ext
Sets up a user preference for which app should be used
to open files of the specified extension.
setBestIcon:
iconPath
forExtension:
ext
Sets up a user preference for which icon should be
used to represent the specified file extension.