Re: Better way to launch applications in Cocoa
Re: Better way to launch applications in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Better way to launch applications in Cocoa
- From: matt jaffa <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:18:49 -0600
Thanks these code examples work great.
On 6/25/05, Ali Ozer <email@hidden> wrote:
> As of Panther NSWorkspace has a launchAppWithBundleIdentifier:...
> method which lets you specify launch options, so:
>
> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]
> launchAppWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.TextEdit"
> options:NSWorkspaceLaunchWithoutActivation
> additionalEventParamDescriptor:nil
> launchIdentifier:NULL];
>
> If you don't have a bundleIdentifier for your app, you can use the
> openURLs:... variant, passing your app's path as the URL:
>
> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURLs:[NSArray arrayWithObject:
> [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/Applications/TextEdit.app"]]
> withAppBundleIdentifier:@""
> options:NSWorkspaceLaunchWithoutActivation
> additionalEventParamDescriptor:nil
> launchIdentifiers:NULL];
>
> Ali
>
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: matt jaffa <email@hidden>
> > Date: June 25, 2005 14:56:22 PDT
> > To: email@hidden
> > Subject: Better way to launch applications in Cocoa
> > Reply-To: matt jaffa <email@hidden>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my System Preferences app I made I use it to launch a helper
> > app. I am using
> > [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:@"PATH"].
> >
> > This launches my app fine but I want it to not take away focus from
> > the System Preferences app I wrote. Is there some other API that I can
> > use that won't take focus away from my app? I tried messing around
> > with Carbon API LaunchApplication(...), but didn't get it working and
> > is kinda a hassle to try get it working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
> >
>
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