Re: Preference pane deployment

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sun Nov 25 11:37:58 2007

On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch wrote:

> I have a background application and I'm creating a preference pane 
> for users to change settings. I'm going to be using Sparkle to push 
> out updates to the application. I talked to some people on the 
> Sparkle list, and they say to put the prefpane in the application 
> bundle under the Resources folder. My question is: is that the 
> accepted "standard" location for a preference pane for deployment? 
> How would I get the preference pane installed when the application 
> is first launched?


You could use NSWorkspace's -openFile: to open the .prefpane bundle 
as a document. It's a registered document type for System 
Preferences.app, which will then give the user the option of 
installing it for that user only (in ~/Library/PreferencePanes) or 
for all users (/Library/PreferencePanes). The app will also take care 
of authorizing as admin if needed.

    [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] 
pathForResource:@"MyApp" ofType:@"prefpane"]];

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