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Re: Application Termination for Mac Reboot
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Re: Application Termination for Mac Reboot


  • Subject: Re: Application Termination for Mac Reboot
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:16:53 +0100


On 2005-03-08, at 12.51, apr trainees wrote:

i've referred :
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ BPSystemStartup/Tasks/CreatingStartupItems.html

Did you also read this (linked from the URL you provided above):

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ BPSystemStartup/Concepts/BootProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002130/ CJBDEDDD>

In particular:

"Important:  The startup items discussed in this section are system-level modules that provide low-level services to all users. These should not be confused with the Startup Items pane of the Accounts System Preference, which specifies applications to launch when a specific user logs in."

StartupItems are not intended to be GUI or user level applications, but rather system "daemons", faceless tools that provide some sort of service to other applications. Per-user applications, and applications with GUI that needs to be auto-launched should not be implemented as StartupItems. What solution you would use instead depends on the type of application you are developing, but I think that in general what you're looking for is some sort of "Login Item". I don't know of any technotes from Apple that describes how you would do this, but there is a lot of stuff in the list archives. For example:

<http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/2005/2/17/128515>

j o a r

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