adding folder to favorites in finder

Targets macOS
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Heres one for OSX experts, is there a way in Xojo to link a folder to the favorites bar in finder? the same way dropbox does it.

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I found this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8380562/adding-buttons-to-finder-toolbar

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As one of the participants says in the discussion "Dropbox is using undocumented magic. "…

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Undocumented magic and reverse engineering are secrets well kept by wizards :wink:

I tried to use Automator to record adding an icon to a finder toolbar. Does not work.

Maybe AppleScript can do that ; unfortunately I know too little about it to program the alt-command drag and drop required. Maybe another member ?

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Reverse engineering, horrible hacks, and other things that shouldn’t be done in shipping software.