Re: Proper way of connecting to apps

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 08:58  am, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > 3. [NSWorkspace -launchApplication:] does not work correctly. The 
> > method returns immediately after executing application binary, i 
> > would expect it to wait until successfull application launch, so i 
> > can connect to it immediately and start communicating with it. Now I 
> > have to create a loop where I check whether application is running.
>
> That might be a bug as you suggest... how does OpenStep/MacOS-X do it? 
>  I thought it counted 'launch' as meaning that that it had started the 
> new task rather than as meaning that the application had completed all 
> its startup. It's very simple to change this of course, but we need to 
> be sure what the correct behavior is.

Further investigation seems to be quite clear that the current 
implementation is correct (ie the way MacOS-X does it).

Perhaps it might be worth making the GSContactApplication() function 
from GSServicesManager.m public, since it
wraps the code for contacting an application already?