Re: Relaunching an application

FROM : Nir Soffer
DATE : Mon Mar 03 18:14:19 2008

On Mar 3, 2008, at 18:24, Mattias Arrelid wrote:

> I have an application that I need to restart.


Why do you want to do that?

> An easy way to do this could be:
>
> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:executablePath];
> [NSApp terminate:self];
>
> The problem is that the above solution results in confusion in the 
> system dock; sometimes the original application does manage to quit 
> before the new instance, other times not. If it does NOT manage to 
> quit before the new one is launched, the dock ends up with two 
> icons for my application; one that indicates that the application 
> is launched, another one that's indicates that it's not launched. 
> This is NOT good.
>
> I've seen other programs in need of a restart (e.g. the Sparkle 
> framework) using a separate helper application that simply checks 
> whether the original process has quit properly before re-launching 
> it. This sure does work, but it isn't a pretty solution.


Seems pretty to me. You want use a separate process to make this work 
reliably.


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer