Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally
Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally
- Subject: Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally
- From: "Sherm Pendley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:56:09 -0400
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Yann Disser <email@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you all for your help. I managed to fix the problem by going over
> your suggestions.
>
> The problem was that I access a file (without proper error-handling; I will
> add that now :-)). The default working directory is the main-bundle path
> when run from within XCode and it is "/" when run from Finder.
>
> I repaired this by adding
> [[NSFileManager defaultManager] changeCurrentDirectoryPath:
> [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByDeletingLastPathComponent]];
> to my awakeFromNib. I hope this works as I intend.
You shouldn't rely on the current working directory. Just use the call to
-bundlePath (or one of NSBundles many other methods for finding paths to
different bundle internals) to create a fully-qualified path to the file you
want to open.
sherm--
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