Hi All,

I worked out a way of running my Cocoa (GUI) app. From either the normal double clicking it, Or from the CLI.

I realised that when an app launches from a double click (GUI), it returns an argument count (argc) of 0.

But when launched from the CLI it will have an argc of 1. So long as I do not put any arguments myself.

Which means I can use if.. else.. to determine how the app was launched.

This works fine for my app as I do not need to put arguments.

But I wondered if there was a better way of doing it.

Here is an example of the code in the main.m

int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {


 //This determins if the app is launched from the command line or app itself is opened.

if (argc == 1) {
         //app was run from CLI
        // Create a  object
    MyClass *mMyClass;
    mMyClass = [[MyClass alloc] init];
        // Read the Buffer
    [mMyClass readBuffer];

        // Write out file on disk
    [mMyClass createFile];
    [mMyClass doMoreStuff]; 

    [mMyClass release];
    mMyClass = nil;

    return 0;
} else {
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];


        //app was doubled click, (Opened)

return NSApplicationMain(argc,  (const char **) argv);

[pool drain];
    // */
    //  return NSApplicationMain(argc,  (const char **) argv);
    }}

Many Thanks. M