Re: App behaves differently when run in Xcode
Re: App behaves differently when run in Xcode
- Subject: Re: App behaves differently when run in Xcode
- From: Victor Tran <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:49:59 +1000 (EST)
--- Sherm Pendley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:21 AM, Victor Tran wrote:
>
> >>> The problem is when I try to run the Hawk.app
> file
> >>> (after deployment) in the build folder it
> doesn't
> >>> do any of the logging it's supposed to do.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone have any ideas why it's doing this?
> >>
> >> How is it determining where to write the logs?
> Are
> >> you specifying the
> >> full path to the log file, or just the file name?
> >
> > I specified the path and filename.
> > e.g. "./logs/imageTest.png"
>
> I suspected something like that, which is why I
> asked - that's not
> the full path to the file.
>
> The "." is the current working directory, which will
> be different
> depending on how your app is launched. When it's
> launched from Xcode,
> it's the build directory. When it's launched from
> Finder, it's "/".
> When it's launched with the "open" command-line
> tool, it's inherited
> from whatever process ran that. In other words, you
> can't depend on
> it having any particular value.
>
> Here's how to get the full path to the current
> user's recommended log
> directory:
>
> NSString *logDir = [@"~/Library/Logs/MyApp"
> stringByExpandingTildeInPath];
>
> Note that the standard place for logs is under
> either ~/Library/Logs
> or /Library/Logs, depending on whether they're
> shared among multiple
> users. Even if the current directory were reliable,
> creating a logs/
> directory next to the .app would be a bad idea for
> other reasons anyway.
>
Hmm ok I'll try using the full path. The logs I'm
talking about are the actual outputs of the
application. So how do I get the current working
directory of the app?
> sherm--
>
> Cocoa programming in Perl:
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>
>
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