Start Tweet From a Mac App - cocoa

I'm writing a mac app and I'd like it to pass a message to a twitter client like Twitter or Twitterific.
Does anyone know how to do this?
In Twitter.app's Info.plist they declare a CFBundleTypeExtensions which looks promising because I can drag a snippet of text onto the Twitter.app icon and it will initialize a tweet.
However I tried doing this in code with:
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:#"tweet tweet" withApplication:#"Twitter"];
But that just cuases this to be printed in the console:
LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -43 for application Twitter path tweet tweet.
Twitterific does not define CFBundleTypeExtensions, so even if I can get this working for Twitter it won't work for Twitterific.
Does anyone know if this is documented anywhere? I've tried to find it in FAQs and things but haven't been able to yet.

As the part openFile: suggests you pass a filename, not a generic string. So you might simply be able to dump your string into a temporary file and pass that filename. However, I don't know what file format Twitter expects and what it's doing with it.

After some more digging I found this: http://twitterrific.com/ipad/poweruser
Funny enough the url works for Twitter.app but not Twitterific...
twitter://post?message=escapedString
I sent the Icon Factory a mail about this, hopefully I'm just missing something.

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using emoji from different server, nextcord bot

I'm trying to get emoji's from a another server.
I creates a server object for the server, it is a constant because I want to only pull from this server.
for emoji in main_tuple:
emoji_name_id =await server.fetch_emoji(emoji)
emoji_array.append(f"<{emoji_name_id.name.lower()}:{emoji_name_id.id}>")
error:
nextcord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an
exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10014): Unknown Emoji
I should mention I want to display it another server, I know this is probably obvious but yeah.
main_tuple is a directionary in a database that has the emoji id and name.
the error
Also the bot is part of the server it's getting the id from.
I have looked at: discord.py emoji all servers bot in
and it does not work for me.
First Issue, you are making a wrong reference.
<:Name:ID> and not <Name:ID> (if you don't see it, you missed the first colon)
Another issue,
emoji_name_id.name.lower()
Custom emojis are to have to have 'exact' name and ID as they have, by using lower method, you would be trying to reference a wrong custom emote.
For example:
The actual emote which might have the following reference <:ThisIsACoolEmote:ID>, while you are appending <:thisisacoolemote:ID> which doesn't exist
To mitigate this, you can just append str(emoji_name_id) which will automatically give you the correct emote reference which is in the format <:Name:ID:> and yes, it also will format animated emojis too, i.e:<a:Name:ID>
also fetching here might not be the best practice, you can use bot.get_emoji instead which gets emote from internal cache if you have access to member Privileged Intent.

Retrieving parameters from a custom URL in TideSDK

I'm putting together a desktop application in TideSDK and am having some trouble finding the parameters passed to the application via a custom launch URL.
The application launches when the appropriate protocol is invoked (call it aaa://), but I haven't been able to figure out how to grab the URL string. I read a couple of threads that suggested I could get the string with the Ti.API.application.getArguments() call, but it returns something odd (see below).
// launch application with aaa://some_args_here
var args = Ti.API.application.getArguments();
// returns (StaticBoundList) [ /path/to/app, "-psn_0_721072", ]
I'm not completely surprised that this doesn't seem to work, as the API documentation says the getArguments method returns a list of command line arguments.
Any insight as to how to access the launch URL would be appreciated!
have a look at window.location.search
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.location
It doesn't appear that there's currently an "official" way to do this, so I came up with my own solution that seems to work pretty well (though currently its only implemented for OSX).
Searching through the TideSDK source, I found the place where the native application delegate is created. I added a URL launch handler in the app delegate, which stores the launch URL in a new app delegate member, and connected it to the API with a binding in Ti.UI.
If anybody else is interested in this functionality, or have insights as to how to accomplish this task for Windows, please get in touch!
Although I don't have your problem, just want to say the following function works fine for me.
var args = Ti.API.application.getArguments();
is it possible this is the problem of the urlprotocl registry?
my url protocol is set by this : MSDN
thus the value in "Command" is
"C:\YOUR_APP_FOLDER\YOURAPP.exe" "%1"
tested on win7 and winxp,
both successfully get the arguments.

Send Email with pdf file as attachment in rhomobile

I want to send email using mailto tag with a single pdf file as attachment.
mailto tag opens the mail window with passed arguments like to and subject using:
Mail to Manager
But, attachments as a parameter isnt working.
Please suggest how to send pdf attachment in rhomobile.
Thanks
I think that you need to add the physical path to the PDF file for it to work (otherwise it may not know where the file is). This post on a forum says as follows:
The only problem is that this "mailto" command executes on the
client machine, therefore it tries to locate the attachment file by
a physical path, and not by a virtual path.
That is,
Using mailto:iudith.m#zim.co.il?subject=my report&body=see attachment&attachment="\myhost\myfolder\myfile.lis"
works ok, but only for local users (those connected to the same
network as the "myhost" machine).
Using mailto:iudith.m#zim.co.il?subject=my report&body=see attachment&attachment="http://myhost:myport/my_location_virtual_path/myfile.lis"
does not work, it does not recognize such a syntax as valid for
the attachment file.
In your case you would properbly need to look at this part of the Rhomobile docs (on file system access) to get the right path to your file.
EDIT:
From you comment I can see that you are trying to make it work on iOS (due to the iOS specific path).
In this discussion (from Rhomobile's Google Group) it is explained that mailto doesn't support attachments on iOS. It says as follows:
Don't know about other platforms, but you cannot do this on iOS. mailto: does not support attachments on iOS.
You can do it using a native API, MFMailComposeViewController.
This is a complete controller with UI, so you would have to write a Native View Extension to use it:
http://docs.rhomobile.com/rhodes/extensions#native-view-extensions
EDIT 2:
I've looked around and it seems that mailto doesn't support attachments on Android either. This is because Android supports the RFC 2368 mailto protocol, which doesn't include attachments. Here is a reference to the Android mailto url parser.
I would suggest that you do as suggested for iOS, write a native extension. I think this post would be relevant for you.

How to obtain firefox user agent string?

I'm building an add-on for FireFox that simulates a website, but running from a local library. (If you want to know more, look here)
I'm looking for a way to get a hold of the user-agent string that FireFox would send if it were doing plain http. I'm doing the nsIProtocolHandler myself and serve my own implementation of nsIHttpChannel, so if I have a peek at the source, it looks like I'll have to do all the work myself.
Unless there's a contract/object-id on nsHttpHandler I could use to create an instance just for a brief moment to get the UserAgent? (Though I notice I'll need to call Init() because it does InitUserAgentComponents() and hope it'll get to there... And I guess the http protocol handler does the channels and handlers so there won't be a contract to nsHttpHandler directly.)
If I have a little peek over the wall I notice this globally available call ObtainUserAgentString which does just this in that parallel dimension...
Apparently Firefox changed how this was done in version 4. Have you tried:
alert(window.navigator.userAgent);
You can get it via XPCOM like this:
var httpHandler = Cc["#mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?name=http"].
getService(Ci.nsIHttpProtocolHandler);
var userAgent = httpHandler.userAgent;
If for some reason you actaully do need to use NPAPI like you suggest in your tags, you can use NPN_UserAgent to get it; however, I would be shocked if you actually needed to do that just for an extension. Most likely Anthony's answer is more what you're looking for.

Ellipsis in Firefox without going to Mozilla.org

In order to get ellipsis to work in Firefox, I need to create an extra XML file that makes several references to Mozilla.org to get the Firefox to recognize the CSS3 text-overflow feature.
<bindings xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/xbl" xmlns:xbl="http://www.mozilla.org/xbl" xmlns:xul="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
However, if possible, I will like to not having to refer Mozilla.org at all if I can get all the definitions locally on the web servers just in case if the web servers blacklist Mozzila.org.
And curiously "http://www.mozilla.org/xbl" returns a 404 error but the xmlns is definitely required, otherwise ellipsis will not work.
Please let me know if anyone has a better solution.
Thanks,
badallen
The url is really just an identifier that is unique. The fact it looks like a url is just because that is an easy way to create an unique identifier.

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