Hi Dave, Thanks for your reply.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Dave Keck <davek...@gmail.com> wrote: >> After the release of Snow Leopard, it seems that [iTunes isRunning] >> returns YES for a short while even after the application has quit (I >> believe this applies to all apps, not just iTunes, but I haven't >> confirmed this yet). As a result, my app would relaunch iTunes, >> assuming it was still running. Not cool. > > I can't comment decisively on your problem with Scripting Bridge, but I > experienced some relaunching issues with NSAppleScript when attempting to > control an application other than iTunes. Since both NSAppleScript and > Scripting Bridge are based on Apple events, I imagine we experienced the > same underlying problem. I believe you are right. Funny though that the NSAppleScript route seems to cause fewer relaunches than ScriptingBridge. > Anyway, I ended up using the Process Manager APIs > to check whether the app in question was running before executing an > AppleScript to issue commands to it. It's worth a try. But I'm afraid it will put a heavy load on the CPU for a timer firing every second, no? > (It seems NSRunningApplication is the > modern API for 10.6+.) Do we know if this is faster than using Process Manager? Unfortunately I need to target Mac OS X 10.5 as well (where this is not a problem), but I suppose I could use NSSelectorFromString() to get it to compile under the 10.5 SDK. > /snip.../ > > I only know enough about AppleScript to avoid it, but I believe iTunes is > being launched necessarily for the NSAppleScript to compile. No, this is not correct. You can compile a script without launching the target - at least on Snow Leopard. -F _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
