Re: Agent Applications and launchd
Re: Agent Applications and launchd
- Subject: Re: Agent Applications and launchd
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:44:29 -0800
Alberto Ricart wrote:
On Dec 31, 2005, at 5:23 AM, j o a r wrote:
then perhaps you shouldn't be using CFPreferences either? Who knows
how many lines of code it's made up of? ;-)
The question is not the depth of the code path, but who the owner of
the code is. The 800 line solution would lie on my side (as in it
would need to be supported by me even if with support from the great
folks at dts). My whole point is that the supported way is ridiculous
- "autolaunch foo" is a simple request and shouldn't take more than 5
lines of code to specify - heck I bet the whole autolaunch
functionality doesn't have that much code.
Have you read the accompanying docs? Or did you just get a ruler out,
measure the code, and decide you didn't like it? :)
Seriously, the AppleScript version /is/ about 5 lines of code. It is
truly trivial.
The "800 lines of code" you keep harping on about is the C code
necessary to synthesize this AppleScript with raw AppleEvents.
AppleEvent code has always been bulky, but that's been an issue since
System 7.0--get used to it :) It is highly unlikely to require changes
in the future.
You have options if you want to make it smaller. For instance, you can
always embed the AppleScript in your code and compile and run it on the
fly (see OSACompile/OSAExecute). Or you can redesign the code to use
AEBuildAppleEvent, which makes the code a lot tighter (but a little
harder to read in some cases).
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