Re: login items hide box
Re: login items hide box
- Subject: Re: login items hide box
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:03:17 -0700
On 2009 Sep 24, at 05:47, Ron Fleckner wrote:
In part, it says:
"Due to a bug <rdar://problem/4052117> in Mac OS X 10.4 and later
(up to including 10.4.2, which is the latest release at the time
this was written), LoginItemsAE can't handle hidden login items
properly. That is, the value of kLIAEHidden is always false and you
can't add a hidden login item. This bug does not affect earlier
systems."
Are you using Apple Events to create your login item? If so, this
bug could be causing your problem.
Well, actually the same bug appears to affect not only LoginItemsAE,
but also if you use the more "modern" method (requires 10.5),
LSSharedFileList. I reported this bug to Apple on 2008-04-30. It
appears that Apple has marked this bug as "closed", but they never
added any details.
Problem ID 5901742
30-Apr-2008 02:48 PM Jerry Krinock:
* SUMMARY
The 'hidden' attribute for Login Items in the LSSharedList API has a
disconnect with the reality. In more detail, when reading a Login
Item, the 'hidden' attribute is read as 0, even if it is in fact '1',
unless the 'hidden' attribute has been set by the LSSharedList API. In
that case, it doesn't really set, but when you read it back with the
API, it says that it is set, even though in fact it is not.
* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Build and run the attached project. Follow the prompts shown in the
the console.
* EXPECTED RESULTS In all tests, the values read and written using the
LSSharedList API and shown in the log should agree with what is shown
in the System Preferences application.
* ACTUAL RESULTS
In Test #1, items which have the "Hide" box checked in System
Preferences read from the API hidden=0.
In Test #5, although the API set Safari to "Hide" and the API read it
back as hidden=1, if you look in System Preferences you see that the
"Hide" box is not checked.
'SSLoginItems.zip' was successfully uploaded
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