Installing an app vs OSX Launch Services

[Richard Wesley]

OK, here is a strange question. Suppose I have installed an application
and I want to make sure that Launch Services knows about it? I am
having a problem where I install an internet protocol helper application
and IC can't find it when I register it. So I go looking at the LS APIs
to see how I whack the system upside the head to tell it about a new
application, and lo and behold, there are no Set routines for this sort
of thing - only get routines! That is not very um helpful.

So at this point I am contemplating various hacks such as:

- Telling the Finder to open the application (pretty harmless)
- Using the old DTDB routines (a bit risky)
- Hacking the LS .plist (scary and dangerous)

But i don't know (yet) whether any of these will work.

I have also noticed that WMP does not register until you run it, so
maybe this is a common problem? Anyone run into this? Anyone have a
better solution?

TIA,

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[Thomas Engelmeier]

In article <hawkfish-F68EF7.15053519082003@tribune.sj.sys.us.xo.net>,
Richard Wesley <hawkfish@trustedmedianetworks.com> wrote:

> But i don't know (yet) whether any of these will work.
>
> I have also noticed that WMP does not register until you run it, so
> maybe this is a common problem?

Yes.

> Anyone run into this? Anyone have a better solution?

No. run and immediately quit it or instruct the user to logout and login
again on case it is installed in /Applications or ~/Applications.

B-(

Regards,
Thomas

[Richard Wesley]

In article <bhv97f$3hrtu$1@ID-2640.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Thomas Engelmeier <aug03_nospam@engelmeier.com> wrote:

> In article <hawkfish-F68EF7.15053519082003@tribune.sj.sys.us.xo.net>,
> Richard Wesley <hawkfish@trustedmedianetworks.com> wrote:
>

> > But i don't know (yet) whether any of these will work.
> >
> > I have also noticed that WMP does not register until you run it, so
> > maybe this is a common problem?

>
> Yes.
>

> > Anyone run into this? Anyone have a better solution?

>
> No. run and immediately quit it

Great - thisis very low impact (it is just an AppleScript applet).

> or instruct the user to logout and login
> again on case it is installed in /Applications or ~/Applications.

Nope. Which is just as well - the system is designed for complete
idiots ;-)

Many thanks.

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[Richard Wesley]

In article <BB6C5E4A9668DAB0F@10.0.1.2>,
[email]slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk[/email]@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:

> In article <hawkfish-52877D.10020620082003@tribune.sj.sys.us.xo.net>,
> Richard Wesley <hawkfish@trustedmedianetworks.com> wrote:
>

> >> If your app is bundled with an Info.plist,

> >
> >Nope (AppleScript applet).

>
> If you use Project Builder to compile your AppleScript then
> you'll find that it does have an Info.plist. If you're
> writing an AppleScript in Script Editor then it doesn't have
> enought structure to be a fully-fledged application so it
> can't be used as the target for a Launch Service anyway.
>
>

Script Editor actually. And it is working just fine...

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