I create the application using the JarBundler ANT Task http://informagen.com/JarBundler/. The test
application that I mentioned in the previous email is built in the same way.
http://www.4shared.com/file/20492931/7cac353e/StartupTest.html
If I look at the contents of the .app folder, the application is started using
JavaApplicationStub.
Nicu
--- email@hidden wrote:
> I've deleted the original post, but IIRC, you had a shell script that
> ran your app...
>
> In that case, it would be your console app that would be hidden, not
> anything it launched... maybe that's why it's still shown.
>
> But if your app is a self executing jar, or a java app wrapped using
> Jar Bundler (in /Developer/Java Tools), you should be ok.
>
>
> On 23 Jul 2007, at 19:06, Nicolae Cismaru wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you all for the quick answers. This is the first time I'm
> > developing a Java application for
> > Mac.
> >
> >>> In the loginwindow.plist, add the key/value
> >>> <key>Hide</key>
> >>> <true/>
> >>> Or is there something else?
> >>
> >> There isn't, AFAIK.
> >
> > I didn't know the Hide key did that. I've done some research and
> > here's what I found.
> >
> > 1. If I register Skype as a Startup Item and flag it as hidden, its
> > splash screen and the contact
> > list doesn't appear when I log in.
> >
> > 2. If I do the same thing for my Java/Swing application, the splash
> > screen and the main window are
> > still displayed. I've also created a small Swing test application
> > to prove this. You can download
> > it (source code and ant build script included) from:
> >
> > http://www.4shared.com/file/20492931/7cac353e/StartupTest.html
> >
> >> I think simply making the application hidden, like the previous
> >> poster said,
> >> will do exactly what you want.
> >
> > This means that the splash screen and the main window are not
> > hidden automatically. I'll have to
> > hide them from code as Greg suggested.
> >
> > As for using the term minimized, that was a mistake. I actually
> > wanted to say hidden.
> >
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > 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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