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#5 use a proper executable name in the MacOSX version

MacOSX
open-accepted
5
2007-05-02
2007-05-01
No

Hi,
The executable name (not the app name) in the Mac version is the rather generic "JavaApplicationStub", and some MacOSX programs (such as Little Snitch) use the executable name to recognize the application (in the case of Little Snitch, the application trying to access the network).
I simply renamed it to JBidWatcher,
"mv JBidWatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub JBidWatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/JBidWatcher"
and changed the corresponding entry in JBidWatcher.app/Contents/Info.plist
and everything works fine. If you're testing it yourself, it may not work, but here's the trick: Because of the MacOSX cache, you have to zip the application, put the original in the trash, empty the trash, and unzip it, so that it rescans the plist.

Thanks (again) Morgan for the great job.

Fred

Discussion

  • Morgan Schweers

    Morgan Schweers - 2007-05-02
    • labels: --> 101613
    • milestone: --> 100996
    • assigned_to: nobody --> cyberfox
    • status: open --> open-accepted
     
  • Morgan Schweers

    Morgan Schweers - 2007-05-02

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    Greetings,
    That's a good point. I'll poke at that, and see if I can do that for a future version.

    -- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

     
  • Morgan Schweers

    Morgan Schweers - 2007-05-02
    • labels: 101613 --> 471329
    • milestone: 100996 -->
     
  • Morgan Schweers

    Morgan Schweers - 2007-05-02
    • labels: 471329 --> System Integration
    • milestone: --> MacOSX
     

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