OtherToolsMostWanted

Features/fixes to existing non-Apple tools, or just tools you wish you had but don’t have time to make (and maybe someone else will!)

A fast, full-featured open source file browser. It’d probably never fully replace Finder, but it’d be nice to be able to view directories containing thousands of items without resorting to Terminal.app
A CMM (Contextual Menu Module) that just puts the Services menu in the contextual menu. I know about ICECoFFEE, and have it installed, but I don’t care about double-clicking on URLs and I just don’t like having ApplicationEnhancer installed just for this. It seems like it’d be pretty easy to do - just grab the Services menu and stick it in there. But I lack CodeWarrior (you can’t do CMMs with XCode, AFAIK)
A command-line tool which opens an arbitrary dictionary plist, extracts the value for a given key, and gives it to stdout. Hoping someone else will make this. :-) Sample useage: plistvalue mydict.plist MyKeyName > storeItHere.txt

Ask and ye possibly may receive if someone gets bored enough. – MikeFletcher

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

NSDictionary *myDict;
id result;

// Check arguments; print usage if we don't have a filename and
// the key to print
if( argc != 3 ) {
  [[NSFileHandle fileHandleWithStandardError]
    writeData:
      [[NSString stringWithFormat: @"usage: %s in.plist key\n",
                 argv[0]
        ] dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

  [pool release];
  exit( 1 );
}

// Ask NSDictionary to try and read plist file
myDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:
                         [NSString stringWithCString: argv[1]]];

// If it couldn't be read, gripe and bail
if( myDict == nil ) {
  [[NSFileHandle fileHandleWithStandardError]
    writeData:
      [[NSString stringWithFormat:
                   @"Couldn't create dictionary from \"%s\"\n",
                 argv[1]
        ] dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

  [pool release];
  exit( 1 );
}

// try and pull out the requested key
result = [myDict objectForKey: [NSString stringWithCString: argv[2]]];

// If there's no such key, gripe and bail
if( result == nil ) {
  [[NSFileHandle fileHandleWithStandardError]
    writeData:
      [[NSString stringWithFormat:
                   @"Couldn't retrieve value for key \"%s\"\n",
                 argv[2]
        ] dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

  [pool release];
  exit( 1 );
}

// Write requested value to stdout
[[NSFileHandle fileHandleWithStandardOutput]
  writeData:
    [[NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@\n", result ]
      dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

[pool release];
return 0; }

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