[PD] Spotlight Importer for OS X

[mark edward grimm]

Yo....

This is awesome!! Thanks for doing this (again)....

cheers
mark

  


--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PD] Spotlight Importer for OS X
> To: "pd-liste List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 8:10 AM
> Hi all,
> Here's a Spotlight importer for Pd (and AFAIK .pat)
> files.
> 
> Starting with tonight or tomorrow's autobuild,
> installing it (just
> double-click it) will let Spotlight look inside your Pd
> patches.
> Also, a beneficial side-effect of a necessary change to
> Pd-extended's
> bundle means that Pd-patches are now Quick Look-enabled
> (don't get
> /too/ excited, it is only the plaintext representation, but
> still
> extremely handy).  And after the importer itself gets
> enveloped by
> Pd-extended's bundle, it will just work (no
> installation needed).
> 
> This version just indexes the entire text.  In the future I
> could add
> specific metadata keys to correspond to "Pure Data
> Objects", "Pure
> Data Messages", "Pure Data Comments", and
> "Pure Data [declares]",
> which could then be used to construct complex Spotlight
> queries (but I
> just learned enough Obj-C to get this far tonight so give
> me a while :
> ) ).
> 
> Hans, apparently placing it in
> Pd-extended.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight will make it
> magically
> start working the first time Pd is dragged out of its .dmg.
>  I don't
> have a clue about building this dynamically in the
> autobuilds, but
> since it is a Universal Binary and OS X only is it cool to
> add
> statically?
> 
> enjoy
> Luke
> 
> (by the way, you'll know you have the right Pd-extended
> when running
> "mdls -name kMDItemContentType a-patch.pd" gives
> "org.puredata.pd-patch" rather than
> "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81a3a" or
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