Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
- Subject: Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
- From: Paul Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:50:46 -0500
Karl Kuehn wrote:
On Jul 7, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Paul Miller wrote:
I'm working on an Installer plugin that will install my stuff into
multiple copies of Photoshop (ie Photoshop CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4, etc).
So I want to search for and find all copies of an application named
"Photoshop" with a certain signature. I think
LSGetApplicationForInfo() will only get me the "default" one.
What's the best way to search for ALL of them, noting that they might
not all be in /Applications?
You probably want to use Spotlight (if you can afford to go 10.4 and
above). You can do this in a script with mdfind. Building the right find
command can be a bit of an art, but you probably will only want to look
for applications with a name matching a pattern. But you can do more,
and even find things where the user has changed the outside "name".
Yeah, we're shooting for 10.4 and up - sounds like a good approach. Can
you suggest how I could execute this script (preinstall/preupgrade?) and
query the results in my installer plugin? Or should I just launch the
script directly within the plugin and parse the results (popen?)?
Thanks for any tips. This is all pretty new to me, though I am making
some decent progress on my installer plugin UI.
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Paul Miller | email@hidden | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo?
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