Introduction to Application File Management
Explains how Cocoa applications can use, manipulate, and
Organization of This Document
This document has the following articles:
- Concepts File Wrappers describes the object that encapsulates a file, directory, or link.
- The Save and Open Panels describes the panels that you run to let users specify files (and sometimes directories) to save and open.
Tasks
- Working With File Wrappers describes how to make and manage file wrappers.
- Working With Directory Wrappers describes how to make and manage directory wrappers.
- Using a Save Panel explains how to create and display a save panel.
- Using an Open Panel explains how to create and display an open panel.
- Getting the Current Selection describes how to find out what the currently selected file or directory is.
- Filtering Out Browser Items explains how to make specific items in the browser unselectable.
- Configuring a Choose Dialog describes how to configure an Open panel as a Choose dialog.
- Managing Accessory Views explains how to make, add, and manage accessory views.
See Also
- Document-Based Applications Overview
- Low-Level File Management Programming Topics
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