Re: Preference pane deployment

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sun Nov 25 23:55:44 2007

On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:22 PM, patrick machielse wrote:

> Op 25 nov 2007, om 18:41 heeft Sherm Pendley het volgende geschreven:
>

>> 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.

>
> If you choose this method, you will want to make sure that the 
> System Preferences application is closed before you try to install 
> your new pane (or restart it after you've installed). If the user 
> has used / loaded the preference pane during an upgrade, the 
> behavior of the pane after install is unpredictable, presumably 
> because it is not possible to unload Objective-C code.


Good point. Kind of annoying though. With all the "smart" behavior 
that System Preferences does have with respect to installing new 
panes. It seems a strange omission that it can't restart itself when 
needed.

sherm--

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