LSUIElement option on Panther
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Jon,
Once on the macos list you declared:> Yup - Panther appears to cache a lot of the LaunchServices information
> about an app, even across logout/login. I had an app that offered an
> option to show its icon in the Dock or not, and had to change the way
> I implemented that because I could no longer change the app's plist on
> the fly (which was already on the bug list as a Bad Thing anyway).
>
> - Jon
Could you give me some infos about your solution ? Because I have the
same problem, and I don't know how to solve it.
Luc.
Luc Regnault
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Research & Development
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:32:59PM +0100, Luc Regnault wrote:
[snip]> Could you give me some infos about your solution ? Because I have the
> same problem, and I don't know how to solve it.
From SSHKeychain's codebase:
/* Change the bundle's modification time to let LaunchServices know we've
* changed something. */
if(utime([[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] cString], NULL) == -1)
{
/* Apparantly, the user hasn't got write access to the application
* bundle. */
...
}
As you can see, this trick will fail if the user hasn't got access to the
application bundle.
Cheers,
Bart
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"touch" (update the modification time) of the main app bundle.
// In 10.3 we have to touch the app bundle, or this won't work
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] changeFileAttributes:[NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObject:[NSDate date] forKey:NSFileModificationDate]
atPath:[[NSBundle
mainBundle] bundlePath]];
Karl
On Nov 3, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Luc Regnault wrote:> Jon,--
>
> Once on the macos list you declared:
>
>> Yup - Panther appears to cache a lot of the LaunchServices
>> information about an app, even across logout/login. I had an app
>> that offered an option to show its icon in the Dock or not, and had
>> to change the way I implemented that because I could no longer change
>> the app's plist on the fly (which was already on the bug list as a
>> Bad Thing anyway).
>>
>> - Jon
>
> Could you give me some infos about your solution ? Because I have the
> same problem, and I don't know how to solve it.
>
> Luc.
>
> Luc Regnault
> Alwan Color Expertise
> Research & Development
> http://www.alwancolor.com/
> http://regnault.luc.free.fr/
>
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Thank you. This tip works very well !...
Luc.
mardi 4 novembre 2003, à 12:50 am, Hsu a écrit :> "touch" (update the modification time) of the main app bundle.
>
> // In 10.3 we have to touch the app bundle, or this won't work
> [[NSFileManager defaultManager] changeFileAttributes:[NSDictionary
> dictionaryWithObject:[NSDate date] forKey:NSFileModificationDate]
> atPath:[[NSBundle
> mainBundle] bundlePath]];
>
> Karl
> -
At 12:49 PM +0100 11/5/03, Luc Regnault wrote:> Thank you. This tip works very well !...
No it doesn't - as Bart pointed out, this will fail if the user
doesn't have write-access to your app. What I did is re-engineered
my app to be a bundle (it's incredibly easy - you just have to take
care of the fact that your nibs and resources are not loading from
the main bundle) and then made two "shell" applications that load the
same bundle. One shell app has the LSUIElement flag set, and the
other has it cleared. I run the appropriate app depending upon the
user's settings.
- Jon
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