Open folder in finder

limapapa

I have an export plugin to export jpgs to a specified folder. How can open a specific folder/path in a finder window? Im using SKPM

linzpeng

@skpm/dialog ?

kevgski

You can definitely do that with cocoascript!

If you have a file path:

let pathToFile = "/Users/kgutowski/Downloads/Testing2.sketch"
let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(pathToFile).URLByDeletingLastPathComponent()
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL(url)

or if you have the folder path:

let pathToFolder = "/Users/kgutowski/Downloads/"
let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(pathToFolder)
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL(url)

kevgski

what @linzpeng suggested works too but slightly differently. That's if you want to have the user select a folder from a file picker dialog.

limapapa

Excellent, thank you, I have this working now! However, when the finder window gets opened it sets that window as the active window and deactivates sketch and hides my plugin. I would like to open the finder window and still have sketch be the active app (which will keep my plugin visible). I looked around and found people doing something like this
let conf = NSWorkspace.OpenConfiguration()
conf.activates = false

But im not sure how to implement that using NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL(NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path))

Thanks for the help!

kevgski

You pass the configuration to a different method. Take a look at the methods on NSWorkspace

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsworkspace?language=objc

Tip: when looking at apple docs be sure to look at the objective-c documentation not the swift one! NSWorkspace.OpenConfiguration() is swift syntax.

Theres

openURL:
openURL:configuration:completionHandler:
openURLs:withApplicationAtURL:configuration:completionHandler:

We want to now use the second option:

let config = NSWorkspaceOpenConfiguration.configuration()
config.activates = false
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL_configuration_completionHandler(url,config,nil)

limapapa

kevgski Awesome, that worked! thanks so much! I have this all working now. Really appreciate the help!

janily

kevgski if i want to open a file and auto selected the file in finder, how do that? thanks.

abynim

janily

NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activateFileViewerSelectingURLs([your-file-url])

The method takes an array of NSURLs.

janily

abynim Thanks aby, when i use activateFileViewerSelectingURLs, it is just open a folder, not selected a special file in the folder, below is my code:

let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(file_path).URLByDeletingLastPathComponent()
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activateFileViewerSelectingURLs([url])

Is there something wrong with the code?

abynim

janily Looks like the URL you are passing in is of the folder. It should be the file you want to show as selected.

So your code should be:

let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(file_path)
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activateFileViewerSelectingURLs([url])

The name of the method kind of explains what it does. It lets you activateFileViewer (which is Finder) by SelectingURLs (which is the URLs of files you want to show as selected).