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Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally
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Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally


  • Subject: Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:36 -0700


On 15 May '08, at 9:42 AM, Yann Disser wrote:

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.


That will work, although if any other -awakeFromNib method (of an object in that nib) wants to use a relative path, you have a race condition, because the order in which -awakeFromNib methods are called is, basically, random.

But it's better to just avoid using relative paths, if possible. If you're accessing a file inside your bundle, you should use the NSBundle resource APIs to get its location.

—Jens

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