On Aug 20, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Bradley O'Hearne <br...@bighillsoftware.com> > wrote: > >> 1. Is there any guaranteed invocation order of these methods, or is it >> completely random? I cannot think of any scenario where you'd want to >> process the URL launching event *after* the callback which signifies app >> launch completion. That just seems wrong. > > Under the hood, the mechanism is that the Launch Services options for > launching an app can include an AppleEvent to send the app upon launch. Most > commonly this is an ‘odoc’ (open document) event, if the app was launched by > double-clicking a document. In the case of opening via a URL, as in your > case, that event would be a ‘GURL’ (goto URL). In the case where there’s no > AppleEvent given, the app receives an ‘oapp’ (open app) event just to tell it > that it isn’t going to get a different special event. > > The reason for ‘oapp’ is for the exact thing you’re describing: the app wants > to know when it’s done launching, i.e. when the special launch-time events > are over. > >> 2. Assuming that the answer to 1 is that there IS an expected invocation >> order, then what could possibly cause this problem? This smells an awful lot >> like something to do with unexpected results of thread scheduling in the OS >> (not in the app, I'm creating no threads at all). > > It might be an AppKit bug, or it might be in the Finder (e.g. maybe it’s > launching the app normally and then sending the GURL event, instead of > attaching the event to the launch options.) > > —Jens
Jens, In my case, the URL is custom, configured with launch services and in my app's info.plist file. The app is launched by opening a URL with the specified protocol from a web browser. It is not being launched any other way (such as from the Finder). Brad _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
