Hi Bob,

If at all possible I'd try and avoid the conversion. If this is not feasible, this could help:

def posix_from_hfs(hfs)

    url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(nil, hfs, KCFURLHFSPathStyle, false) # final argument is whether the path is a directory or not

    url.path

end

def hfs_from_posix(posix)

    url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath posix

    CFURLCopyFileSystemPath(url, KCFURLHFSPathStyle)

end

The first method needs reworking, as it assumes that the HFS path is not a directory.

I've only did a very brief test of the above code, but it seems to do the job.

Al

On 18 Apr 2012, at 12:48, Robert Schaaf wrote:

Hello again, Macruby community!

I'm trying to rewrite a program that drives Excel with appscript, and running into the problem of translating back and forth between HFS and POSIX pathnames.  The old Appscript module included a MacTypes module, and these two translations were provided.

1. to go from POSIX to HFS:  

hfs_pathname  = MacTypes::FileURL.path(posix_pathname).hfs_path

2. to make the round trip back to POSIX:  

posix_pathname  = DefaultCodecs.unpack(DefaultCodecs.pack(hfs_pathname).coerce(KAE::TypeFileURL)).path

Do I need to go to the scripting bridge for this?  This is Core Foundation stuff, and I'm totally at sea.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob Schaaf

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