Re: Launching Internet Explorer from a Cocoa app
Re: Launching Internet Explorer from a Cocoa app
- Subject: Re: Launching Internet Explorer from a Cocoa app
- From: Alex Nygren <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:13:53 -0800
Thanks..that pretty much worked, except, but since the ultimate goal is to
use a browser to open a particular URL, the openURL: works perfectly.
Alex
On 3/23/02 2:32 PM, "Andrew Mortensen" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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Don't use NSTask to launch IE. That's not what NSTask is for. I don't
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think you're going to be trying to communicate with IE, aside from
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launching it. Use:
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[[ NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace ] openFile: @"Internet Explorer.app" ];
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Items in /Applications don't need the full path using the openFile:
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method.
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andrew
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Alex Nygren wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I need help...I am having trouble launching Internet Explorer using NSTask.
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> As an example of how I am trying to do it:
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> [args addObject:[NSString stringWithCString:"www.mac.com"]];
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> [aTask setCurrentDirectoryPath:@"/"];
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> [aTask setLaunchPath:@"/Applications/Internet
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> Explorer.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet Explorer"];
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> [aTask setArguments:args];
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> [aTask launch];
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> Now, Internet Explorer is a special type of file, not a standard executable:
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> bash-2.05$ file "/Applications/Internet Explorer.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet
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> Explorer"
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> /Applications/Internet Explorer.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet Explorer: CFM
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> binary
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> As opposed to a regular app:
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> bash-2.05$ file /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
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> /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit: Mach-O executable ppc
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> The above code works with TextEdit. Microsoft always has to be different!;)
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> Any ideas on how to get Explorer to Launch?
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> Cheers,
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> Alex
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