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Re: Starting as Startup Item?

Subject: Re: Starting as Startup Item?
From: Mihkel Tammepuuu <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:16:50 +0200
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At 18:15 +0000 04.12.2004, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:28:23 +0100, M. Uli Kusterer
<email@hidden> wrote:

 At 10:20 Uhr +0200 04.12.2004, Mihkel Tammepuuu wrote:
 >How can an application determine if it was launched as a Startup
 >Item on logging in to Mac OS or a usual way like (double)clicking
 >it's icon?

   IIRC you get some additional parameters to your main() function when
 you're launched from Finder.


I don't think that this is documented behaviour, and anyway I think
that this happens regardless of who launches your application (as long
as it was done via Launch Services).

Looking at main() arguments don't help much, I always get 2 arguments, the first is of course the app executable path and the second is a rather obscure string beginning with minus sign like -psn_0_1441793 or -psn_0_1966081. You can see these arguments if you issue ps -axl command and make the Terminal wide enough. Also looking at ppid DOES NOT help, parent process is /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer either way.

//
Mihkel


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