RE: how to warn users of wrong system
RE: how to warn users of wrong system
- Subject: RE: how to warn users of wrong system
- From: "Jonathan E. Jackel" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:24:53 -0400
You could have your app run a small helper app that is compatible with
<10.3. The helper app could put up the dialog.
Jonathan
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[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of matt neuburg
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:50 AM
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Subject: how to warn users of wrong system
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My app is now Panther-only, so the first thing I want to do is
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check the appkit version and put up a dialog warning if we can't
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run on the user's system (and quit). I put such a check in my
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main controller object's init, and it worked for a while, but now
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it turns out that this is not soon enough: because of
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incompatibilities in the nib file format, we crash before we even
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reach this code if we try to start up on a pre-Panther system.
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So I'm guessing I need to move the check into main.
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My question is: if NSApplicationMain hasn't been called yet, how
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can I put up a dialog? NSRunAlertPanel doesn't work at that
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stage... Thx - m.
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