Re: Alternative to NSRunningApplication launchDate?
Re: Alternative to NSRunningApplication launchDate?
- Subject: Re: Alternative to NSRunningApplication launchDate?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:21:15 -0500
On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/1/14, 14:33, email@hidden wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:46:21 -0400
>> From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Alternative to NSRunningApplication launchDate?
>> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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>> The docs for NSRunningApplication launchDate say "only available for applications that were launched by LaunchServices."
>>
>> And indeed if the app was launched by Xcode (for debugging) launchDate returns nil.
>>
>> Anyone know another way of finding an app's launch date? Some UNIX layer API?
>
> The old Process Manager APIs - specifically, GetProcessPID(), GetNextProcess() and GetProcessInformation() - do what you want; they were deprecated in 10.9 but still work on 10.10. And, as far as I know, no substitute API has been announced yet.
I'm pretty sure that the Process Manager APIs have the exact same limitations as NSRunningApplication (and NSWorkspace, etc.). Indeed, NSRunningApplication is the replacement API that you're looking for.
Regards,
Ken
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