Re: stopping an application
Re: stopping an application
- Subject: Re: stopping an application
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:45:54 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to "Luca C." <email@hidden> message dated "Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:21:55 -0700."
"From the command line"...
Luca C. <email@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/4/13 Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
> >
> >
> > I was afraid of that... Is there an easy way to do that from the
> > command line given its PID?
>
>
> Using an AppleEvent given the appropriate bundle id of the application is
> actually pretty easy.I have found this in one my quite old project:
>
> + (OSStatus)quitApplicationWithBundleID:(NSString *)aBundleID {
>
> OSStatus err;
>
> AppleEvent event, reply;
>
> const char *bundleIDString;
>
>
>
> bundleIDCString = [aBundleID UTF8String];
>
>
>
> err = AEBuildAppleEvent(kCoreEventClass, kAEQuitApplication,
> typeApplicationBundleID,
>
> bundleIDCString, strlen(bundleIDCString),
> kAutoGenerateReturnID,
>
> kAnyTransactionID, &event, NULL, "");
>
>
>
> if (err == noErr) {
>
> err = AESendMessage(&event, &reply, kAENoReply, kAEDefaultTimeout);
>
> AEDisposeDesc(&event);
>
> }
>
> return err;
>
> }
>
>
> Haven't tested with Leopard yet, but I'm sure it works there.
>
>
> HTH
>
> --Luca C.
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