i'm not certain i'll find an answer but i'd thought this would make for a good brain teaser and or be an enlightening experience or disappointment lol... basically, i need to bat an idea around... Can i write a function for an asp page that will query my Mac OS X server while using its Spotlight feature? when you're using a Mac to sear...
I'm developing an OS X application to organize "things" (as iTunes is to music and iPhoto to photos). Instead of having my own database and index, I'm considering using Spotlight to essentially serve this purpose. Has anyone tried this? Is it wise? The main benefit, as I see it, would be simplicity and avoiding redundancy. It seems a b...
If you search for something that opens Preview.app (e.g. a PDF file) in Spotlight, the application not only opens the file but actually copies the Spotlight query into the application's search field (for deeper search). iPhoto and Mail.app also do this. This is a really nice feature. Unfortunately, Apple does not document how it's imple...
Hello, I have been asked to implement a javascript floodlight tag onto my site which is to be called everytime a customer downloads a pdf file. I have tried to implement this as follows: <script type="text/javascript"> function appForm() { var axel = Math.random() + ""; var a = axel * 10000000000000; document.write('<IFRAME SRC="htt...
From older times (Mac OS 10.4) I had found this command line on the web somewhere: mdfind '(kMDItemFSContentChangeDate >= $time.now(-60)) && (kMDItemFSContentChangeDate <= $time.now)' it gave me a list of files that where changed in the last minute. This does not work anymore on Mac OS 10.6. Can anybody explain why this doesn't work? ...
The following Spotlight query, correctly returns all archive and ISO files on my system: kind:iso OR kind:archive However, Spotlight treats .bin files as archives too and returns .bin files in the results as well. How can I modify the above query and exclude files that end in bin from the result? I tried the following query but it is...
I have created a spotlight importer for comic files. The attributes are successfully imported and searchable. The one thing that remains is getting the attributes to display in a file's get info window. It seems that this should be a simple matter of editing the schema.xml file so the attributes are nested inside displayattrs tags. Un...
Hi. I want to add a spotlight search functionality - search results being displayed with rich contents like thumbnail etc in a drop down menu changing on each keyup event - just like the apple.com search - to a site, having data in MySQL InnoDB tables. So basically that is displaying search results based on the part of the query that has...
Hello All, I have a need to spawn a window that will hover just above my main window in a cocoa application. I want this main window to allow the user to enter some text in an input box. All is well until the text input box actually gains focus. The main window becomes "deactivated." This window is borderless and is a slightly custom sh...
I've tried using Will Strohl's component but whatever I do for some reason when I inject the Spotlight script I get this text still displaying in the browser (which is a part of the markup which is embedded): tags, as close as possible to the opening tag. Creation Date: 09/29/2009 --> ...
Hi, Is that possible for spotlight search of iphone to take the contents of my application and show as search results ? If yes how to accomplish ? ...
Hello, I'm implementing a MacOS X's spotlight like universal search for a web based software. So the basic functionality (fetching results, displaying them) is done and it's working perfectly, but now I have to do some more work on giving the user the right results. Basically I have three important parts in the software Document ID Doc...
I am working on making an application that will store information, and for user convenience I'd like to make it possible for them to use Spotlight (scroll to the left until search appears on the home screen) to search for items in the app. Is this possible, and if so, can you point me to a reference? I have had no luck in finding this, ...
For some reason I cannot do this on files inside bundles and files residing on different volumes. Am I the only one experiencing this problem, and if not how do I solve it? The Finder seems not having difficulties showing spotlight properties for the same files that I'm experiencing problems with. I want to obtain the kMDItemKind of ...
I have an iOS application which has an abbreviated name, but I would like to be able to search for the app in spotlight using either the full or abbreviated name. Is this possible? ...
Can I use the Spotlight APIs (they exist, right?) in Cocoa to determine if Spotlight (in the upper-right corner) would match a given filePath with a given string? In other words, given a filePath such as "/Users/enchilada/Desktop/MapOfUSA.pdf", and a string such as "Virginia", how would I tell if Spotlight would show this file when "Vir...
I am writing a Spotlight importer for an application that stores content in files with meaningless names. There is benefit from allowing the user to search for these files, however. It's easy enough to write an importer that extracts and returns useful metadata but when the user does a search in Spotlight they are presented with the m...
I want to write the python equivalent of mdfind. I want to use the .Spotlight-V100 metadata and I cannot find a description for the metadata db format used, but NSMetadataQuery seems to be what I need. I'd like to do this in python using the built in Obj-C bindings, but have not been able to figure out the correct incantation to get it t...
I have an application that will play a series of radio stations by choosing them from a drop down menu. Ideally I'd like to add some code, so that a spotlight search that would return any of the items in the dropdown and open the application as if you did this from within the application itself. The spotlight documentation gives no clue...