Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication: vs NSAppleScript
Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication: vs NSAppleScript
- Subject: Re: NSWorkspace launchApplication: vs NSAppleScript
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:05:06 -0700
- Thread-topic: NSWorkspace launchApplication: vs NSAppleScript
On Tue, 30 May 2006 22:33:23 +0300, Nir Soffer <email@hidden> said:
>According to the documentation, NSWorkspace -launchApplication should
>launch an app synchronically, and returns a boolean result.
>
>However, this code does return a success, but checking for the active
>application little later does not return the expected result. This
>happen randomly, sometime it works and sometime not.
>
> if (! [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]
>launchApplication:@"Microsoft PowerPoint"])
> STFail(@"SkipTest: can't launch Microsoft PowerPoint");
>
>This code works:
>
> NSAppleScript *script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:
> @"tell application \"Microsoft PowerPoint\" to activate"];
>I'm activating in a fixture setUp, and verify the active application
>using NSWorkspace -activeApplication in a test method.
But you are comparing apples with oranges, since -activeApplication checks
to see what application is *frontmost*. AppleScript "activate", too, makes
an application frontmost. But launchApplication: is like AppleScript
"launch"; it tries to guarantee that the application is *running*, but
nothing else. m.
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