Re: exec(uting) Safari - How (newbie)

Subject: Re: exec(uting) Safari - How (newbie)
From: Jason Coco <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:46:01 -0400
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On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:38 , Clark Cox wrote:

On 7/2/08, Jason Coco <email@hidden> wrote:
Yeah, to me it is... although I still agree that it's not an ideal
solution for a Cocoa application...
By the way, assuming you change char *args[] = { "-a", "Safari",
NULL }; to char *args[] = { "/usr/bin/open", "-a", "Safari", NULL };
the exec* example actually works while the LaunchServices example
fails with kLSApplicationNotFoundError.
After playing around with it a little, I discovered that you need to actually call it CFSTR("Safari.app") in this case to get it to work correctly... so like anything else in life, since I'm much more familiar with the POSIX/BSD API (and since pretty much every operating system I've ever worked with treats exec* similar) it's a lot easier *for me* than using LaunchServices.
Easy or not, it's still wrong. Launching safari via exec will not, for
example, re-use an already/running instance.
Just don't use exec to launch GUI applications--period.

I don't think anyone disagrees with that... that's why the suggestion was to use /usr/bin/open if you were gonna use an exec* call. If you use /usr/bin/open it makes a proper connection to the window server as well as sending the proper apple event to an already-started application.

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