[Openmcl-devel] One last (I hope) Cocoa question

[Ron Garret]

That works!  Thanks!


On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Gary Byers wrote:

> The other question to ask is whether there's a way to make the RCS (and Emacs,
> and ...) behave more like well-behaved Mac programs.  (There's a whole protocol
> that "save" is supposed to go through to ensure that HFS aliases continue to
> resolve; Cocoa applications seem to follow this protocol, but unix-level things
> likely don't.)
> 
> You -might- be able to force NSDocument to re-synch its notion of what file
> the document is associated with by doing something like:
> 
> (let* ((url (#/fileURL doc)))
>  (revert-hemlock-buffer ...)
>  (#/setFileURL: doc url))
> 
> I don't really know if that'd work, but I don't know why it wouldn't if it
> doesn't.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Ron Garret wrote:
> 
>> I think I have all the pieces working that I need to integrate a revision control system into Hemlock.  I can grab snapshots on every save by intercepting GUI::WRITE-HEMLOCK-BACKUP-FILE, and I can rollback by using the underlying RCS to rollback the file and then invoking hemlock-ext:revert-hemlock-buffer.  All that works, but there is a hitch: once the RCS has swapped out the underlying file (so that it now has a different inode), Cocoa won't let you save it any more, except by doing a SAVE-AS, which is annoying.  I can work around this by closing the editor window and then re-opening a fresh one on the (now new) file, but that seems like a Horrible Hack.  Does anyone know of a way to convince an NSDocument to reconnect itself to a file with the same name but a different inode?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> rg
>> 
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