Re: Launching Cocoa Application externally

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Thu May 15 18:56:09 2008

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Yann Disser <<email_removed>> wrote:

> Thank you all for your help. I managed to fix the problem by going over
> your suggestions.
>
> The problem was that I access a file (without proper error-handling; I will
> add that now :-)). The default working directory is the main-bundle path
> when run from within XCode and it is "/" when run from Finder.
>
> I repaired this by adding
> [[NSFileManager defaultManager] changeCurrentDirectoryPath:
>    [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByDeletingLastPathComponent]];
> to my awakeFromNib. I hope this works as I intend.



You shouldn't rely on the current working directory. Just use the call to
-bundlePath (or one of NSBundles many other methods for finding paths to
different bundle internals) to create a fully-qualified path to the file you
want to open.

sherm--

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