Status & Lion

[Andre-John Mas]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what the status of the project is and its
compatibility with Lion?

Thanks

Andre

[Tom Andersen]

Andre,

OpenMeta seems to work on Lion, from my tests. If you need to use it in an app that will be going into the app store, you need to make a few changes to the configuration, so as to pass the tests for the App Store.

--Tom

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[Jono]

Seems to have stopped working with Adobe Illustrator files.

After tagging them, editing them with Illustrator and re-saving them the files lose the tags. Adobe Photoshop files still seem OK though.

[Tom Andersen]

Dominik,

The App Store has requirements about where you can create files. There are no places to have 'shared preferences' or similar between applications from different companies:

So:

OpenMetaBackups - these really help in keeping tags glued to files like Adobe Photoshop (and other Adobe apps) files, and also provide a layer of backup. There are located in the App Support folder. 

I just turn them off unless the user has a folder in App Support. Also perhaps a menu item in your app that explicitly tells the user to 'backup open meta' and would simply create an empty folder to do the trick.

// Open meta backup folder - if one is there, turn on backups, else don't. 

extern BOOL gDoOpenMetaBackups; // this is defined in OpenMetaBackup.m

static void StartOpenMetabackupsIfNeeded(void)

{

NSString* path = [@"~/Library/Application Support/OpenMeta/" stringByExpandingTildeInPath];

if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:path])

gDoOpenMetaBackups = NO;

}

Shared recent tags, etc. These are shared through a preference file.

When starting up, I do much the same thing, and check for the existence of a shared prefs file, if its there, use it, else store the recently used tags in our own prefs file.

I call [self setupTaggingPrefs] in the app delegate at launch.

// For the apple app store, only use open meta prefs file if the file is there...

+(BOOL)openMetaPrefsFileExists;

{

NSString* prefFilePath = [@"~/Library/Preferences/com.openmeta.shared.plist" stringByExpandingTildeInPath];

if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:prefFilePath])

return YES;

return NO;

}

-(void)setupTaggingPrefs;

{

if (![[self class] openMetaPrefsFileExists])

[OpenMetaPrefs setPrefsFile:@"com.ironic.yep"];

}

--Tom

On 2011-09-03, at 2:34 PM, Dominik Pich wrote:

what would I have to adapt to get ready for the appstore?

 smime.p7s

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[Rob Lewis]

OK, since no one seems to have asked about Mountain Lion compatibility, I will. What's the story? 

[Tom Andersen]

I have not seen any differences between Spotlight in general and OpenMeta in specific on Mountain Lion.

I think that sandboxed apps (which all new apps into the OS X app store require) can now do spotlight searching (10.8 required).

--Tom