On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Gregory Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barrie Green wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I want to write a quick little cocoa app that fires off Safari. >> >> ... >> >> Ideally I would like to run the app without it asking me for my >> password, how could I achieve that? > > Considering that I can think of no common purpose for "launch Safari" that > doesn't continue with "and show the contents of a designated file or URL" > I'll point out that the proper way to achieve that goal is NSWorkspace's > openURL: method. But I'll caution that it doesn't necessarily launch Safari; > it launches the user's default web browser.
Also note that exec'ing an application and launching it are two very different things. Running a Mac application via exec is almost never the right thing to do. Use the appropriate NSWorkspace call (either openURL: or launchApplication:) and forget about exec. -- Clark S. Cox III [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
