Skip to content

macOS: reveal comics in Finder without AppleScript #576

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
starlit-void wants to merge 2 commits into
base: develop
Choose a base branch
from
Open

macOS: reveal comics in Finder without AppleScript #576

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
13fd927
macOS: reveal comics in Finder without AppleScript
starlit-void Jul 31, 2026
746dd44
Update changelog
starlit-void Jul 31, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Version counting is based on semantic versioning (Major.Feature.Patch)
* Add funtion to open the library root location.
* Add a help dialog for the search engine. Use the drop down menu in the search field.
* Add quick search presets. Use the drop down menu in the search field.
* Fix `open containing folder` asking for permission to control Finder on macOS.

### YACReaderLibraryServer
* Add the `repair-library` command to restore missing covers and rescan files that previously failed to be added.
Expand Down
15 changes: 5 additions & 10 deletions YACReaderLibrary/library_window.cpp
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -2694,17 +2694,12 @@ void LibraryWindow::openContainingFolderComic()
#endif

#ifdef Q_OS_MACOS
QString filePath = file.absoluteFilePath();
// `open -R` reveals and selects the file in Finder without sending an Apple
// Event, so it doesn't trigger the macOS automation permission prompt.
QStringList args;
args << "-e";
args << "tell application \"Finder\"";
args << "-e";
args << "activate";
args << "-e";
args << "select POSIX file \"" + filePath + "\"";
args << "-e";
args << "end tell";
QProcess::startDetached("osascript", args);
args << "-R";
args << file.absoluteFilePath();
QProcess::startDetached("open", args);
#endif

#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
Expand Down
Loading