>In the loginwindow.plist, add the key/value
> <key>Hide</key>
> <true/>
>Or is there something else?
There isn't, AFAIK.
The state of Hide is user-controllable. The initial state can be preset by
the application, but it should remain user-controllable, and not be forced
by the application. See System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items tab
(the tab is Startup Items on 10.3). It's the Hidden checkbox.
If the app has to do something by itself based on the state of Hide, it
should get the state by itself. Think of it as an external global
variable. There are several ways of getting its value.
One way is to exec() the command 'defaults read loginwindow
AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary' and parse the resulting text to get the
value of interest.
The login items dictionary is also accessible by AppleScript. See the
Login Items Suite of System Events.app, and exec() the 'osascript' command
from Java. This also requires parsing the resulting text.
One could also use the XML DOM to parse loginwindow.plist, then walk the
tree to examine the Node of interest.
Of these, the XML DOM is probably simplest for a Java program, just because
you don't have to write any parsing code. You still have to do the
decoding, but that's probably simpler than writing a parser, IMO.
One last thing: any plist file can be stored in XML or in binary-plist
format. There is no guarantee which one it will be at any point. The
'plutil' command can convert a plist to XML, which should occur before XML
parsing is attempted. Read 'man plutil', and see its -convert xml1 and -o
options in particular.
-- GG
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