Re: Launching cocoa app programatically with argument(s)
Re: Launching cocoa app programatically with argument(s)
- Subject: Re: Launching cocoa app programatically with argument(s)
- From: Rolf <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:10:36 +0200
Fantastic. Yes that worked !
Thanks :-)
I should have though of this myself. Actually I did try it from a Terminal window. Seeing that didn't work I wrongly assumed it wouldn't from NSTask either ..
/Rolf
11.06.2003 10:41:44, skrev Greg Hulands <email@hidden>:
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Why can't you give the NSTask the absolute path to the exectuable
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within the app bundle. eg /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp.
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Greg
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On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Rolf wrote:
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> Hi
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> I need to launch a cocoa app programatically with arguments from
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> another cocoa app, and receive notification when the launched app has
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> terminated (alternatively wait for it to finish).
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> I have tried the following:
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> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:sApp]:
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> Problem: Does not support commandline arguments. I have tried
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> appending a space + argument to the path but that doesn't work.
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> NSTask * myTask = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLauncPath: sApp
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> arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"/silent",nil]];
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> [myTask waitUntilExit];
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> Problem: Doesn't work with cocoa apps (bundles). I get a "permission
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> denied" exception. BTW: Incredibly this exception is not caught by an
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> enclosed exception handler. Other exceptions (such as missing file)
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> are caught.
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> I don't think NSBundle can be used either (no way to pass arguments +
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> no notification when terminated).
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> I'm sure there's a very simple way of doing this. Anybody know how ?
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> /Rolf
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