Editing Mac OS X login items in Objective-C through AppleScript
- by mon4goos
In my Cocoa program, I want to examine what programs are registered to run at startup and modify that list as I feel appropriate. In order to be compatible with Tiger it seems like I need to work through AppleScript. I currently have the following code:
NSDictionary* errorDict;
NSAppleEventDescriptor* returnDescriptor = NULL;
NSString *appleSource = @"tell application \"System Events\"\n\
get every login item\n\
end tell";
NSAppleScript *appleScript = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: appleSource];
returnDescriptor = [appleScript executeAndReturnError: &errorDict];
If I run that command in AppleScript, I get back an array of login items. However, I can't figure out how to iterate through this array in Objective-C. More specifically, I want to examine the names and paths of the programs registered to run at startup.
Any ideas?
