Thanks for the replies.
I am actually quite familiar with launchd but was thinking that maybe
I had missed something. I vaguely remember reading a blog where
someone had used launchd to detect the app launching event but for the
life of me I cannot find it. It probably had something to d
Tom Hohensee wrote:
I have written an application that I would like to launch whenever
a certain app is launched. I have used LaunchAgents in the past to
detect events such as USB insertion and volume mounting to perform
certain actions. I was wondering if there was a launchd.plist key
th
One other thing I should have mentioned is that if this "certain app"
that you're watching to launch happens to write a file somewhere when
it launches, then you could use the directory-watching capability of
launchd.
I wonder if the system writes a file somewhere, when ^any^ app launches?
On 2009 Jun 04, at 08:40, Todd Heberlein wrote:
I have written an application that I would like to launch whenever
a certain app is launched. I have used LaunchAgents in the past to
detect events such as USB insertion and volume mounting to perform
certain actions. I was wondering if the
I have written an application that I would like to launch whenever a
certain app is launched. I have used LaunchAgents in the past to
detect events such as USB insertion and volume mounting to perform
certain actions. I was wondering if there was a launchd.plist key
that allowed for launc
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Tom Hohensee wrote:
> I was
> wondering if there was a launchd.plist key that allowed for launchd to
> detect an application startup.
launchd is explicitly designed not to have this functionality. All
inter-application dependencies must be carried out through some
On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Dave Keck wrote:
Sorry, that question really was bad.
I have written an application that I would like to launch whenever a
certain app is launched. I have used LaunchAgents in the past to
detect events such as USB insertion and volume mounting to perform
certain
Your question is unclear and doesn't make much sense.
Please give lots of clarification, and consider posting your question
on a list where it's more on-topic, such as darwin-dev or launchd-dev
(over at macosforge).
David
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How do I configure a launchd .plist file to detect when an application
running.
Thanks
Tom
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