Introduction to Workspace Services
The NSWorkspace
class provides a variety of services to Cocoa applications, including retrieving information from the file system, launching applications, and miscellaneous other tasks.
Organization of This Document
This programming topic contains the following articles:
About Workspace Services contains a discussion of the services
NSWorkspace
provides.Use of .app Extension describes how OS X uses the
.app
extension to identify applications.Retrieving Information About Files describes how to find file types, application information, and retrieve icons.
Manipulating Files describes how to perform Finder-like operations on files.
Manipulating Applications describes how to manipulate, locate, and hide applications.
Manipulating Devices describes how to track available storage devices and their associated volumes.
Receiving Workspace Notifications describes how to use the notification center provided by
NSWorkspace
to receive workspace notifications.
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