Re: How test whether Mac app is running in Xcode?
Re: How test whether Mac app is running in Xcode?
- Subject: Re: How test whether Mac app is running in Xcode?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:50:52 -0700
On Oct 15, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
> I can't talk about the "why?" part of my question in public because it's an issue unique to Mavericks. Let me just say that a certain common category of applications is going to want to know how to do this in Mavericks, for good and sufficient reason.
OK … sounds like you should take the question to Apple’s developer forums, then, where you can talk about 10.9.
> What I find interesting is that NSWorkspace's -frontmostApplication and -menuBarOwningApplication and NSRunningApplication's currentApplication return different results in different circumstances. … My guess is that the fact that one of them returns Xcode at launch is a bug that nobody has noticed, and I therefore shouldn't rely on it anyway
I agree, it’s almost certainly a bug.
> So I need a reliable way to find out. I know there is a way
There’s definitely a way. As an existence proof, the first thing I thought of when you asked is the infamous behavior of iTunes — if you attach a debugger to iTunes and then try to play any DRM-protected content, iTunes will intentionally crash. It’s a way to deter people from either extracting the decoded media data, or reverse-engineering the DRM. (Probably not a very foolproof way...)
—Jens
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