113774 - [Mach] file picker doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 110372

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

In the mach-o build, the file picker doesn't work.  A file picker to open
doesn't do anything, and a file picker to save crashes.  I have a patch to
improve this situation a bit, but not fix it entirely -- it gets a file picker
to open (e.g., for a file input on the bugzilla create attachment) to work, and
it gets a file picker to save to no-op.

The basic problem is that we're using the unix local file implementation so we
can't initialize an nsILocalFile from an FSSpec.  I've heard talk of
implementing nsILocalFileMac for the mach-o build.  Until then, this patch might
be useful, unless someone has a better idea.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: Patch to get things half working

This patch gets things half working (open works, save no-ops).	Does the
conversion to a POSIX-style path still allows a file to be uniquely identified,
on OS X?  I don't see a way to get an path from an FSSpec for a file that
doesn't exist, so I don't see a way to get save working (except for overwriting
files, which works with this patch).

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i think conrad wanted to work on the local file rewrite.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110372 ***

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

verified duplicate though the patch should probably go over to the other 
bug