Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication withArguments? (Possibly Solved?)
Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication withArguments? (Possibly Solved?)
- Subject: Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication withArguments? (Possibly Solved?)
- From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:59:11 +0000
On 24 Jan 2005, at 5:13 pm, Clark Cox wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:01:39 +0000, Robert Tillyard
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've found in the documentation that to launch a GUI application from
my app I need to use...
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:@"OtherApp"];
From previous discussion on this list it appears that NSTask
shouldn't
be used to run a GUI application but how would I run and pass command
line arguments to a GUI application?
In general, you don't; Most GUI apps aren't written with receiving
command line arguments in mind. Additionally, what would you do if the
application was already running? There are other ways to pass
information to GUI applications (Distributed Objects, AppleEvents,
POSIX Pipes, Raw Sockets, Shared Memory, etc.).
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
http://www.livejournal.com/users/clarkcox3/
http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/
Thanks for your reply, it's saved me from scanning documentation and
pile of Cocoa books for hours on end thinking that I must have missed
something.
I've got around it by creating a thread that writes a UNIX command line
for the program I want to run then use chmod() to make it executable
and then use system() to run it before using unlink() to remove the
file.
system() has an advantage in that I wanted to do a [task
waitUntilExit]; anyway and system() causes the thread to wait until the
program exits.
The program I wanted to run is called by running:
/path/tp/myapp/myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp
Thanks, again for your help.
Regards, Rob.
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