Third, i have to update the loginwindow.plist file using Cocoa/Carbon
application. But, this is not the solution, which i am looking for.
I have
to acheive this functionality at the time of Installation i.e using
Installer scripts.
Check out the defaults command line tool. That lets you edit a plist
from a shell script. Although the officially recommended way is to use
Apple Events. So, you could try to run an AppleScript that adds your
app to the login items using the osascript command from your
postinstall(?) script.
Haven't had to do an installer yet, but I'd think that you could
also launch your cocoa application from the shell script.
One thing to note, though: If your application isn't installed per-
user, but rather globally for the whole Mac in /Applications, only the
user your installer runs as will get the login item. That's why many
applications require you to launch them once after installation, and
then they add themselves to the login items. That way, every user who
wants to run the app gets the login item registration. E.g. iCal and
iTunes do that with their helper applications.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
