But the problem now is different. How will I know if the application is started automatically at
log in and not explicitly by the user?
- If the application is started automatically and the Hide key is set to true, the splash and main
window will not be displayed.
- If it is started by the user, they must be displayed
Nicu
--- Greg Guerin <email@hidden> wrote:
> >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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