Re: My app breaks when moved while running

FROM : Phil
DATE : Thu Feb 07 21:31:41 2008

I could be mistaken but I don't think there's a good mechanism to do 
this.  You should probably file a bug against the Finder for allowing 
the user to do this without at least warning them that they should 
quit the application before moving/renaming it (but even this would 
still only be a partial solution: what if the user renamed a directory 
in the path to the executable or moved their apps directory somewhere 
else while running?)  It seems like it would be a significant amount 
of effort, both in the Apple frameworks and for app developers, to 
keep a non-trivial application functioning properly to being moved/
renamed while running vs. what percentage of users would ever attempt 
to do this even once.

Phil

On Feb 7, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Sanford Selznick wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  A while ago I submitted a bug report to Apple that my app broke 
> when the user moved it around in the Finder while it was running.  I 
> was told by Apple to "use the bundle APIs correctly".  So, now 5 
> years later, I'm looking in to it.
>
>  I have a very simple Cocoa app with a window in a nib with a static 
> PNG in the window (inside an NSImageView).
>
>  I create the window with:
>
>  [[NibClass alloc] initWithWindowNibName: @"NibName"];
>
>  When I move the app while it's running, and create the window 
> again, Cocoa is all confused and can't find the image referenced by 
> the Nib.  And not just images, it can't find localized strings and 
> other important doodads in the App bundle.
>
>  So, what's the proper way to handle this so I can "use the bundle 
> APIs correctly"?  Is there some way to inform Cocoa that my app has 
> moved?
>
> Thanks,
>  Sanford
>
> PS - The 10.5.1 Finder did not warn me when I moved my app while it 
> was running.
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