On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Erg Consultant wrote:

I write the original STL string to a tmp file, then read it back in. The file is encoded in MacRoman. I tried UTF8 with both converting and reinterpreting but if I use UTF8 when I read it back from file, the read returns nil. If I use MacRoman, the string reads back fine, but when I go to convert it to the URL and then the FSSpec, the FSSpec is invalid and cannot be used byLSOpenApplication

I think the confusion in your code about encodings is part of the problem: Why is anything MacRoman to begin with at all? Applications these days should be using Unicode throughout if at all possible.

Here are the snippets:

exePathString = [ NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:kTempQuagmireHackFilePathNSString
                               encoding:NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding
                               error:&inError ];    // <- Works

....

urlRef = [ NSURL fileURLWithPath:exePathString ]; // <- Works

converted = CFURLGetFSRef( (CFURLRef)urlRef, &exeRef ); // <- Works

It's important to know that this really works -- that CFURLGetFSRef is returning true -- because an FSRef can't refer to a non-existent file. Does it?

If you use -[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:options:error:] to read the contents of your URL, does that succeed? Or if it fails, what does it return for its error output parameter?

inAppParams.application = &exeRef; // I also zero out the whole block before this.

err = LSOpenApplication( &inAppParams, &outPSN ); // <- Fails with -10810 error - Unexpected internal error

What else do you have set in inAppParams? Did you specify kLSLaunchDefaults (which *is not* 0) for inAppParams.flags?

Do you have appropriate permissions for the application at your ultimate FSRef?

  -- Chris

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