Re: NSWorkspace launch APIs don't work for non-universal on Intel?

FROM : Alberto Ricart
DATE : Tue Jun 20 22:47:29 2006

No I have not used the launch services.
All the workspace launch methods have the same result. By name (or 
path) or by bundle identifier.

Is this a known issue? I haven't tried 10.4.7 to see if it resolves 
the issue as my MBP is my production machine.

/a

On Jun 20, 2006, at 3:06 PM, David Dunham wrote:

>
> On 20 Jun 2006, at 12:14, Alberto Ricart wrote:
>

>> I have written a small launcher type utility that uses the 
>> NSWorkspace apis to launch the executable. I have noticed that on 
>> intel hardware, non-universal binaries fail to launch (actually 
>> they do launch, but they tend to die with something similar to the 
>> attached exception).
>>
>> Is there a way of forcing the launch to happen with rosetta?

>
> It looks like you *are* opening with Rosetta:
>

>> Command: P4Cocoa
>> Path:    /LocalDeveloper/NonUniversal.app/Contents/MacOS/NonUniversal
>> Parent:  WindowServer [2040]
>> Rosetta: Yes

>
> so perhaps something else is going on. How are you launching, -
> [NSWorkspace launchApplication:]? Have you investigated Launch 
> Services?
>
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