Re: Relaunching an application
Re: Relaunching an application
- Subject: Re: Relaunching an application
- From: Nir Soffer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:14:19 +0200
On Mar 3, 2008, at 18:24, Mattias Arrelid wrote:
I have an application that I need to restart.
Why do you want to do that?
An easy way to do this could be:
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:executablePath];
[NSApp terminate:self];
The problem is that the above solution results in confusion in the
system dock; sometimes the original application does manage to quit
before the new instance, other times not. If it does NOT manage to
quit before the new one is launched, the dock ends up with two
icons for my application; one that indicates that the application
is launched, another one that's indicates that it's not launched.
This is NOT good.
I've seen other programs in need of a restart (e.g. the Sparkle
framework) using a separate helper application that simply checks
whether the original process has quit properly before re-launching
it. This sure does work, but it isn't a pretty solution.
Seems pretty to me. You want use a separate process to make this work
reliably.
Best Regards,
Nir Soffer
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