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Re: Replacement of deprecated API GetProcessInformation
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Re: Replacement of deprecated API GetProcessInformation


  • Subject: Re: Replacement of deprecated API GetProcessInformation
  • From: Daryle Walker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:59:31 -0500

> On Feb 28, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Steve Mills <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The process signature is an old way of identifying applications and processes. The modern equivalent would be the bundle identifier. From an NSRunningApplication you can get its bundleIdentifier. If you need more info, you can probably get the NSBundle for it and gets its infoDictionary. The process type is the CFBundlePackageType entry in the dict. Note that the CFBundleSignature is also in there, but not all apps will have a decent value in there.

Or any value. Between starting a Mac app project in Xcode 7 and 8, the latter dropped the signature entry in the default-generated Info.plist file.

—
Daryle Walker
Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
darylew AT mac DOT com


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