On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> Although it's only about ten more seconds of typing to use
> -openFile:withApplication: instead and simply avoid the possibility
> altogether.
If you're using this method, make sure to use -[NSWorkspace
absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier:]
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
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> On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>
>> 3) Why all this trouble of launching executables? There's a reason
>> Launch Services is a public framework; use that. Don't use
>> -[NSWorkspace openFile:], because that's not guarantee
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
3) Why all this trouble of launching executables? There's a reason
Launch Services is a public framework; use that. Don't use
-[NSWorkspace openFile:], because that's not guaranteed to open the
package in Installer.app. Instead, use LSOpenURLs
Mark, there are a few things wrong with your advice.
1) Don't invoke a shell unless you need to. Doing so introduces far
too many variables to be useful for the simple purpose of launching
another executable.
2) The first argument to a program needs to be the name of the
program. For example, wh
An easier way may be to get NSWorkspace to do the work for you using
the "openFile:" message.
http://tinyurl.com/NSWorkspace
Mark
On 13 Dec 2008, at 11:01, Mark Allan wrote:
Dennis,
You need to set the launch path of the executable within your NSTask
- currently you're passing /usr/bin/op
Dennis,
You need to set the launch path of the executable within your NSTask -
currently you're passing /usr/bin/open as an argument to nothing.
There are two ways to do this: firstly, using the same logic you've
got below, you can have the launch path be a shell and pass /usr/bin/
open a
I'm trying to distribute an installer within my own application bundle
in the resources directory and run it from my application. When I try
to run it from the debugger I get the error "launch path not
accessible". However, if I then use the terminal to run the command
by hand using the s
