Re: Loading a framework in a PreferencePane

FROM : Mike Davis
DATE : Sat Nov 06 21:28:45 2004

You could always put the framework in your bundle and load it manually
as if it were a bundle. It'd mean that you can't statically link with
it and would need to write some glue code to look up symbols in the
framework.

On 6 Nov 2004, at 21:00, <email_removed> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:58:06 -0500
> From: Chris <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Loading a framework in a PreferencePane
> To: Josh Rooke-Ley <<email_removed>>
> Cc: <email_removed>
> Message-ID: <14821290.1099691886519.JavaMail.<email_removed>>
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>
> I worked through a similar issue a couple years ago with some plugin
> code, but it's been so long that you should take my suggestion with
> that in mind :)
>
> How about getting the bundle of one of the classes from your
> PreferencePane and work from that for the path? It's been long enough
> that I don't recall all the API calls, but you can get the bundle for
> a class, and then you should be able to get the path for that bundle,
> from which you can build the path to your framework.
>
> Of course, if there is a better/faster/etc way to do this, I'd like to
> hear it as well.
>
> Chris
>
> On Friday, November 05, 2004, at 01:13PM, Josh Rooke-Ley
> <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>>
>> I working on PreferencePane that uses some network code in a
>> framework.
>>  I don't want to install the framework in /Library/Framworks because
>> its really a private framework that shouldn't go there.  If I compile
>> the framework with the install path as
>> "@executable_path/../Frameworks"
>> as recommended for private frameworks, it will point to
>> /Applications/System Preferences/Contents/Frameworks.  What I'm
>> looking
>> for is something like "@bundle_path/Frameworks". ..
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> josh
>>
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