Well, it is a FSRef or a FSSpec. Inside a AEDescList. (I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm totally confused.) I just want to get a path name out of a file selection dialog box. It works if a try to get a FSRef from the descriptor list, converting that FSRef to a Unicode string, and then...
Hi all.
I'm trying to port an application to MacOS and need some help with converting the output from NavGetDialogReply to a pathname (would rather not re-write 12,000 lines of ANSI C). There seems to be a zillion ways to do this, but I can't find any in the examples. Seems like a classic...
Just a comment of pros and cons of languages: People tend to get religious about their favourite lang (and OS for that matter). Don't fall for that. There are things you could do only in Lisp or C or ML or whatever, but NO language is morally superior to other languages (and it's been proven...