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Re: Login Item


  • Subject: Re: Login Item
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:08:38 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research

On 2006-06-28 14:55, Aalok said:

>I am adding my application to user login item by modifing
>/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist file programatically. My
>application does open at start up but.....

Ack.  Don't do that.  Use
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/LoginItemsAE/index.html>

It's easy to use.

>I have two questions.
>
>1) When I launch the application, ctrl+click on application dock icon
>doesnt show "Open At Login" selected.

Probably will be fixed by using above sample code.

>2) When I select(check box checked) my application in the startup list
>in system reference it still opens at the startup.

You mean the checkbox in the "Hide" column?  If so, that's normal.  That
checkbox controls whether the app is brought frontmost (iirc).  I was
confused as to what it was for for a while.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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