On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Ben Galbraith wrote:
One other possibility:
LS may not update its database until a change occurs to the .app
directory itself. Moving and copying things inside the Contents dir
doesn't change the mod-date of Alex.app. Try this command:
touch Alex.app
Sweet, okay.
....and later...
I finally got "Alex.app" to work dragging the "Contents" folder from
"Small.app" in the Finder over the version that was in "Alex.app"
and
overwriting it when Finder prompted me. After that, double-
clicking on
Alex.app launched it. I have NO idea what to make of that.
Moving/replacing Contents caused a change to the mod-date of the
target
Alex.app folder, which caused LS to update its database by reading
the new
Info.plist and stuff.
Okay.
It there some kind of magic incantation one has to perform on a
"Contents"
directory at some point? The permissions were *exactly* the same.
The 'touch' of the Alex.app dir should do it.
Okay.
If you want to automate the building your your app-bundle, use the
Jar
Bundler Ant task. Unless you're not using Ant to build, in which
case
you'll have to describe exactly what you mean by "automate".
Ah, okay. I'll take a look at that. I'm a nuts-and-bolts kinda guy,
and I like to avoid black boxes, but at this point, any port in a
storm...
I'm still not entirely sure I've followed what was wrong, and what
was tried. But if it had something to do with the LaunchServices out-
of-sync problems then manually messing around with the contents of an
application bundle is probably what caused it and will almost
certainly not fix it.
'touch' does not always work.
There are no LaunchServices API's to fix it. I'd like to hear I'm
wrong on this. There did appear to be one or two 3rd party packages
that seemed like they might handle the issues but none that I
remember appeared to be free-ware or open source.
Duplicating the application should about always work. I think once or
twice I might of had to throw in a re-boot. It was ultimately what I
was going to resort to for my LaunchServices based application using
Runtime exec. That is what I do anyhow when I have problems and it
didn't seem to provide a real pressing need for a stand-alone
application which is where some of my interest in my LaunchServices
API application waned. Initially I thought I would find some way
through the LS API's to handle all of this.
Building from scratch would probably also about always avoid the
issues- rather than piece-meal tinkering with application bundle
contents. So a build process, probably ant based, might be the ounce
of prevention worth the pound of cure.
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