Re: Finding the executable path in a foundation tool.
Re: Finding the executable path in a foundation tool.
- Subject: Re: Finding the executable path in a foundation tool.
- From: Thomas Harrington <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:02:52 -0600
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 02:40 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 12:50 PM, James Quick wrote:
For a Cocoa application
[[NSBundle mainBundle] executablePath];
will return to path to the currently running executable.
Since there is no bundle for a foundation tool, what's the
recommended approach.
A tool isn't bundled, but there is still an [NSBundle mainBundle]. A
synthetic one is created so that there will always be a main bundle.
The only exception would be if something went quite wrong, and e.g.
NSBundle could not locate the executable.
However if you use this approach in a Foundation tool, you'll find that
-executablePath returns nil, which is not terribly useful.
One way around the problem is demonstrated in Apple's AuthSample demo,
as part of the self-repair functionality. It's a bit ugly, but it
seems to do the job. I don't know of a Cocoa-based method, but would
be interested to hear of one.
--
Tom Harrington
email@hidden
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