Re: How to make an app launch on login?
Re: How to make an app launch on login?
- Subject: Re: How to make an app launch on login?
- From: Jeff Szuhay <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:35:37 -0700
I spoke too soon; yes, all of this is marked as “available but deprecated on 10.11”.
I would hope that Apple would provide sample code to show the preferred new way to do this.
> On Apr 19, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Jeff Szuhay <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> There was some discussion of this on stack overflow but one of the APIs there is deprecated: LSSharedFileListItemResolve.
> It’s 3rd parameter takes a pointer to a CFURLRef and that is now deprecated.
>
> Instead, use LSSharedFileListItemCopyResolveURL; basically the return value from this is what you want.
>
> Deprecated:
> if( LSSharedFileListItemResolve( itemRef , 0 , (CFURLRef*) &thePath , NULL ) == NoErr )
>
> Accepted:
> thePath = LSSharedFileListItemCopyResolveURL( itemRef, 0 , NULL)
> if( thePath )
>
> It looks to me like this was done to have a single API for both Swift and Obj-C for less maintenance (makes sense).
>
>
>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> One of my companies’ apps has a “Launch at login” pref, which no longer works in OS X 10.11. I’m not surprised, since the existing code implements this by writing into loginwindow’s user defaults :-p
>>
>> I’m trying to find the currently supported API for this. The “Adding Login Items” page says:
>>> There are two ways to add a login item: using the Service Management framework, and using a shared file list.
>>> Login items installed using the Service Management framework are not visible in System Preferences and can only be removed by the application that installed them.
>>> Login items installed using a shared file list are visible in System Preferences; users have direct control over them.
>>
>> I’d definitely prefer the latter, since it seems like a bad idea to have the app not show up in the user’s login-item list in the Accounts system pref.
>>
>> I found LSSharedFileList.h, but everything in there is marked deprecated. :(
>>
>> What are my options?
>>
>> —Jens
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