Hendy at 03:49, 9 May 2009

2009-05-09T03:49:11Z

Hendy at 04:28, 15 November 2008

2008-11-15T04:28:15Z

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[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311621 Add "Add Image to iPhoto Library" to contextual menu]

Safari has this feature. It downloads the image to a folder in /private/tmp, like /private/tmp/SafariiPhoto6ImagesSuudKO, and then somehow adds it to iPhoto.

We can do a similar thing, by saving it to a temporary folder and using something like the following Applescript:

<pre>
tell application "iPhoto"
import from "/path/to/temp/folder/lolcat.jpg"
end tell
</pre>

The main issue is to get the image into that temporary folder. Our present Save Image… command eventually gets to '''CHBrowserView''''s <pre>saveInternal: withDocument: suggestedFilename: bypassCache: filterView:</pre> method. This is the method that sets up an '''nsHeaderSniffer''', which then gives us the Save dialog and pops up the Downloads window. We don't want either of those, since we want to make the process seamless for the user.

Removing the '''nsHeaderSniffer''' from the method, for example by commenting out the line

<pre>webPersist->SetProgressListener(sniffer); // owned</pre>

gets us partway there. If you save an image using the context menu, neither the save dialog nor the downloads window comes up. The download image isn't in any of the places you'd expect, either. You'll find it in <pre>~/Caches/TemporaryItems</pre> with a name like -sav0tmp. That's set up earlier in the method.

What we could do is write a similar method, that sets up a temporary file with the same name as the src attribute of the image. We can tell Gecko to grab it from the cache. It doesn't seem to matter if the file name doesn't have an extension on it, since iPhoto will happily import a test PNG with the name -sav0tmp. It's all about the magic numbers, apparently.

We wouldn't need to remove the file after iPhoto imports it either, as <pre>~/Caches/TemporaryItems</pre> is automatically cleared each reboot, as is the directory that Safari uses.

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		+	== Apple Events ==
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		+	Smokey has [[User_talk:Hendy:ImageToIPhoto\|documented]] the Apple Events that Safari uses.

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Hendy at 03:49, 9 May 2009

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