Re: Tools, installers, and login items
Re: Tools, installers, and login items
- Subject: Re: Tools, installers, and login items
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:00:51 +0000
On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 10:52 pm, Angela Brett wrote:
I have a foundation tool which is intended to be running all the time.
I would like to make an installer for it which will make it a login
item or something, so it will always be open. I have two problems
though... firstly, it doesn't seem like a tool works as a login item,
since it doesn't run when doubleclicked. Secondly, I don't know how to
get an installer to make something a login item... looking at the
Package Maker help I guess it would be a post-install script but I
don't know what should be in that. Am I borking up the wrong tree here?
Can/should it be a login item? It's only meant to run for the user who
installs it.
If it should always be running, it should be a StartupItem instead.
There is a howto on startup items here:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto
-- Finlay