Re: Detecting whether app at path is running?
Re: Detecting whether app at path is running?
- Subject: Re: Detecting whether app at path is running?
- From: Matt Gemmell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:04:49 +0100
On Saturday, May 25, 2002 11:53:58 pm Brendan Younger wrote:
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> 1. Is NSFileManager's -isExecutableFileAtPath: method sufficient to
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> determine whether the file at that path is an *application*? That
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> is, to determine reliably whether it's a Classic, Carbon or Cocoa
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> app (it doesn't matter which it is; I just need to know that it
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> *is* an application). I suspect that it would also return true for
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> executable files in /usr/bin and so forth, which I wouldn't
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> classify as applications in the traditional sense. If not, is there
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> a way to make this determination is some kind of reasonably
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> accurate way?
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Look into LaunchServices.h. It's in the ApplicationServices
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framework. Check out LSCopyItemInfoForRef().
Thanks for the pointer. Would there be anything wrong with using
LSCopyKindStringForRef() and just checking to see if the string contains
"Application"? I don't need to know what kind of app it is.
Best,
-Matt
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Matt Gemmell
Scotland Software
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http://www.scotlandsoftware.com/>
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