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An NSWorkspace object responds to application requests to perform a variety of services: Opening, manipulating, and obtaining information about files and devices, Tracking changes to the file system, devices, and the user database, Getting and setting Finder information for files, Launching applications

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Show folder's contents in finder using Swift

I want to be able to select a folder and show its contents in the Finder. I have managed to select the folder itself and select a file within the folder. But I don't know how to show the contents of an empty folder. e.g. Folder A/Folder B I want to…
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XCode Unit Tests - Cannot find viewcontroller in scope

At some point in my app's development, my Unit Tests and UI Tests lost access to my app's main module: Cannot find type 'FileVacuumViewController' in scope They worked with the xctestplan before. I don't know at what point it happened. I tried…
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How to launch system preferences to a specific preference pane using bundle identifier?

I'm trying to open the system date & time preferences directly from my app. I can seem to open System Preferences with no issue using: let settingsBundleIdentifier =…
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Cocoa: Sandbox entitlement to launch another application

I'm calling [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:path]; From my sandboxed app, and I'm getting this error in the console: 9/5/11 12:23:12.462 PM lsboxd: refusing to spawn < PATH REDACTED > for 21383 - reason -10826 9/5/11 12:23:12.463…
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Open URL with Safari no matter what system browser is set to

In my objective-c program, I need to open a URL in Safari no matter what the system's default browser is. That means that this won't work, because it could launch Firefox or whatever other browser: NSWorkspace * ws = [NSWorkspace…
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how to get windows of NSRunningApplication

I want to get the window list for a running application. I can get the running application list from [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] runningApplications], but the window list is only available on NSApplication. Is there some way to convert from…
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OSX/Swift: Call function when screen becomes available

I want my OSX app to call a function when the user's screen becomes available, ex: their computer wakes from sleep or the user turns on their screen. Basically any time the user goes from having no screen active to having one active, I would like my…
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Open user's browser, or switch to the appropriate tab if the website is already opened

In my Objective-C app, I use this code to open a website in the user's browser: [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://blah.com/"]]; This works fine. However, there is one small problem; if the user already…
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Show in Finder not working in 10.8

This works in 10.7 but not in 10.8. How do I get this to work in Mountain Lion? -(IBAction)showTargetInFinder:(id)sender { NSString *linkPath = [targetField stringValue]; NSWorkspace *ws = [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]; [ws…
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Any way to make file resource forks uncopyable by Finder?

Is there any way to make resource forks uncopyable? In particular I'm setting a custom badge icon to the files contained in a specific directory through NSWorkspace via – setIcon:forFile:options: and I'd like those badges to be lost as soon as the…
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Get UTI of NSPasteboardTypeFileURL

NSFilenamesPboardType got deprecated on 10.14 and the suggestion is to use NSPasteboardTypeFileURL. This gives me filename as file:///.file/id=6571367.12885025918 and NSWorkspace is unable to get UTI out of it. How to get UTI from…
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Objective C code for background processes

I have used NSApplication and NSWorkspace to get a list of running applications. But it is only giving me the applications that are active from the administrator and not the root processes that run in the background. I want to get a list of all…
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Launching other apps in fullscreen

As I mentioned in the topic I am wondering if there is any way to run an app in fullscreen right from my app. I tried to use Accessibility, but I haven't found anything that could help. I also tried to use NSWorkspace, but the result is the same.…
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Launch application with arguments with NSWorkspace not working

I would like to open FileZilla (ftp application) with an argument. It is working with NSTask (aka. Process): let process:Process = Process() process.launchPath = appURL.path process.arguments = ["ftp://1.2.3.4"] process.launch() It is not working…
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Cannot receive NSWorkspaceDidWakeNotification in Swift OS X

I'm making a macOS application where it's necessary to do something when the computer wakes falls asleep and wakes up, but I can't get the listener to work. I feel like I've tried everything. In AppDelegate.swift, inside of the function…
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