On 2008 Sep, 30, at 16:47, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
Also, it seems to not find helper applications which are inside
other applications' packages.
Is there any reason why you couldn't just search for the main
application which contains the
On 2008 Sep, 30, at 12:50, Michael Ash wrote:
Of course if [your helper] isn't registered to open documents
then this doesn't work so great.
Yes, that's the problem. It's a background kind of a guy. It doesn't
open documents of any kind.
As for multiple installations, I don't see any
On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
On 2008 Sep, 30, at 16:47, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
Also, it seems to not find helper applications which are inside
other applications' packages.
Is there any reason why you couldn't just
Michael Ash wrote:
For the original problem, I'd recommend using something like
LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL() if it's at all possible.
Good idea but I'm looking for a helper app which is not registered to
open any URLs. Also, I don't see any indication that
LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL()
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Jerry Krinock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Ash wrote:
For the original problem, I'd recommend using something like
LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL() if it's at all possible.
Good idea but I'm looking for a helper app which is not registered to open
any URLs.
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
Also, it seems to not find helper applications which are inside
other applications' packages.
Is there any reason why you couldn't just search for the main
application which contains the helper application inside its bundle
and then just
Incidentally, this is something Microsoft's Office 2008 update
installers do. If you're not careful you can walk away and come back
hours later with the search still running.
Jeffrey R. Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ITCS - Campus Computing Sites
University of Michigan
On Sep 21, 2008, at 3:49
On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Do this on a separate thread, and cache the result.
I highly recommend against this approach. One problem
Tommy Nordgren wrote:
On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Do this on a separate thread, and cache the result.
I highly recommend against
Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Tommy Nordgren wrote:
On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Dunno how I missed the -x, does not matter though, find -x /
On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Tommy Nordgren wrote:
On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Dunno
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Do this on a separate thread,
On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
The methods for finding applications,
-[NSWorkspace fullPathForApplication:]
-[NSWorkspace absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier:]
AppleScript's 'path to application'
all return only ONE result. If there is more than installation of
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Tommy Nordgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use NSTask with the command line find -x / -name '*.app'
Do this on a separate thread, and cache the result.
I highly recommend against this approach. One problem is that it will
fail badly if any of the returned
The methods for finding applications,
-[NSWorkspace fullPathForApplication:]
-[NSWorkspace absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier:]
AppleScript's 'path to application'
all return only ONE result. If there is more than installation of the
application, which often happens out here in
On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
The methods for finding applications,
-[NSWorkspace fullPathForApplication:]
-[NSWorkspace absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier:]
AppleScript's 'path to application'
all return only ONE result. If there is more than installation of
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