Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Multiple Document App Template

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 19:24 America/New_York, Bill Bumgarner 
wrote:

> On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 19:07 US/Eastern, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>  a method for morphing a console app started with ANY command line 
>> into a Cocoa app, even if it's not in a bundle or has been running a 
>> while as a console app and Cocoa wasn't linked in at the time it 
>> started.
>
> Gave this some thought....
>
> The trick is to do this before the ObjC runtime is touched in *any* 
> way.  Even then, we may lose-- if the NSBundle/CFBundle has been 
> tripped by some other mechanism, we lose.
>
> So, dynamic loading works, but anything w/Foundation/Core linked in 
> may not work-- will not work in all cases.

IIRC the undocumented CPSSetProcessName and 
CPSEnableForegroundOperation allowed me to get around that.  Apple's 
jar runner uses this method, I saw that I was able to double-click a 
jar that wasn't in a bundle and it would still run and get 
representation in the dock.. so I tinkered around in gdb until I 
figured out how.

> In any case, I really don't like hacks like this outside of the 
> 'ooh... that's a cool hacque' context.  I'm bummed that it is now in 
> PyObjC, but it does work.

I'm not necessarily advocating it either.  I mostly wanted to know how 
Apple was doing it for Java... though it could be useful in certain 
circumstances [granted, all of them have workarounds, but it could mean 
time saved] for developers.