File Tools

Changes since FileTools 0.4

• Added Open Panel, Save Panel, Path To URL, and URL To Path patches.
• Added option to Text File Writer patch to append instead of overwriting.
• Added option to Directory Scanner (Blocking) patch to include invisible files.
• Added file type, creator, and kind to output structure of Directory Scanner (Blocking) patch.
• Added input to Directory Scanner (Blocking) patch to filter by custom file type (UTI).
• Made File Type patch's File Path input accept paths as well as URLs.
• Modified Structure To File patch and Structure From File patch to preserve structure ordering.
• Fixed exception when File Type patch's File Path input is empty.
• Fixed memory leaks in Directory Scanner (Blocking) patch.
• Fixed memory leaks in Image Downloader (Blocking) patch.
• Fixed crash in Image Downloader (Blocking) patch when given a non-image URL.
• Modified Image Downloader (Blocking) patch to only execute when its inputs change.
• Released source code on GitHub.

Changes since FileTools 0.5beta-20091216

• Added option to Text File Writer for appending to files instead of overwriting.
• Fixed issue with File Type which prevented unix paths (as opposed to URIs) from working.
• Fixed some major memory leaks with Image Downloader (Blocking)
• Fixed various other minor memory leaks.

Changes since 0.4

• Modified Structure To File and Structure From File to preserve structure ordering.

This release of FileTools moves the Directory Scanner (Blocking) and Image Downloader (Blocking) patches to this plugin (so remove those plugins after installing this plugin).

It also features 10.6 compatibility in both 32 bit and 64 bit modes of operation. It still works in 10.5 as well.

Some minor performance improvements were made, a memory leak in the Directory Scanner was fixed, and a few String/File operations should now handle UTF8 better.

This update to FileTools addresses some Composition-Relative-Addressing bugs, fixes some memory leaks, and fixes some race conditions in the QuickLook generator.

This is an update of File Tools, a patch set for loading and saving data to files.

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This version includes some performance improvements, the ability to reload data from files/URLs in the String with File and String with URL patches, the ability to generate QuickLook/Finder icons asynchronously, and the ability to bypass QuickLook and just use Finder Icons for file previews in the QuickLook Patch.

A bug that prevented the loading of certain text files was also corrected.

This plugin supersedes the QuickLook Plugin; please remove the QuickLook Plugin when installing/updating this one.

This is the first public release of File Tools, a patch set for loading and saving data to files.

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This version includes the Checkerboard Bug fix, numerous memory leak fixes, some performance improvements, some code reduction improvements, and some usability bug fixes for the structure input/output patches over the latest beta.

This plugin supersedes the File Type and Text File Writer Plugins; please remove those plugins when installing this one.

This FileTools beta adds the "Kineme File Info" patch.

The File Info patch can tell you if a file exists, what kind of file it is (file, directory, symlink, etc), how big it is, when it was created, and when it was last modified. This information is helpful for intelligent caching systems.

Will probably freak out in Tiger if you feed it a non-absolute, non-~ filename.

This is an update to the File Tools beta that includes some new patches.

New Patches included:

• Text File Writer — used to be a stand-alone plugin
• Structure To File — saves structure contents to a file..
• Structure From File — loads a structure from a file (saved with Structure To File)

Currently, the structure loader does not preserve the order of items in the structure. This means that items at a given index won't necessarily be at the same index when they're loaded. To get around this, access the structure by Key only. Working on a fix for this...

This is an update of the original Kineme Plugin's file-related patches. Patches include:

• Document Info
• File Type
• String With File
• String With URL