accessing command line arguments in AppKit?

In article <67f2a799.0403081105.23f2871c RemoveThis @posting.google.com>,
thomasoniii RemoveThis @yahoo.com (Jim Thomason) wrote:

> So how do I access them from within my program?

NSProcessInfo, a Foundation class.

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jim Thomason wrote:

> But now I'm really stumped. I was hopeful that I could get data handed
> to me in a useful fashion as an argument, but alas, it is not to be.
> When called from another program, I get an argument of "-psn_0_36306945"
> (or some other similar number). And I haven't been able to track down
> the documentation to tell me what that is or how I deal with it.

It comes from the Finder, or Launch Services, or something, and it's there
to set up various internal stuff. You can (and should) ignore it.

In article <20040308140757.Q18253.TakeThisOut@agamemnon.twistedsys.net>,
Michael Ash <mikeash.TakeThisOut@mikeash.com> wrote:

> One way is to simple access them from main(). ObjC isn't magic, and your
> main() function works just like it does in any other app. A more Cocoa-ish
> way is to use NSProcessInfo.

Excellent. Progress!

But now I'm really stumped. I was hopeful that I could get data handed
to me in a useful fashion as an argument, but alas, it is not to be.
When called from another program, I get an argument of "-psn_0_36306945"
(or some other similar number). And I haven't been able to track down
the documentation to tell me what that is or how I deal with it.

I assume that it's gotta be a key into a lookup table somewhere that'll
give me the actual argument passed, but I don't know where to look.

So who'll point me in the right direction?

-Jim.....

Okay, I'm stumped. Specifically what I'm looking at doing is handling
a mailto: link received from a web browser. When someone clicks on a
mailto:, it sends the link to whatever the default email reader is.
And, somehow (magically!) that program figures out the link that was
passed, and hence the email address being sent to.

But I haven't been able to track down how that information is passed.

I've looked in the arguments.
I've looked at standard in.
I've tried to see if there's a current apple event (none, AFAIK, but
I'm not positive I'm looking properly).
I've looked at the general pasteboard.

The only thing that has any data on it is the argument list, where the
second one passed is that -psn number I mentioned in an earlier post.

So I'm stumped. Where should I look to get this information?

-Jim......

In article <67f2a799.0403100655.4269611a.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>,
thomasoniii.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (Jim Thomason) wrote:

> Okay, I'm stumped. Specifically what I'm looking at doing is handling
> a mailto: link received from a web browser. When someone clicks on a
> mailto:, it sends the link to whatever the default email reader is.
> And, somehow (magically!) that program figures out the link that was
> passed, and hence the email address being sent to.

It comes in a GURL Apple event. See <http://www.scripting.com/midas/geturl.html>

hth

meeroh

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Miro Jurisic <macdev.DeleteThis@meeroh.org> wrote in message news:<macdev-B978BF.12083010032004.DeleteThis@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>...
> In article <67f2a799.0403100655.4269611a.DeleteThis@posting.google.com>,
> thomasoniii.DeleteThis@yahoo.com (Jim Thomason) wrote:
>
> > Okay, I'm stumped. Specifically what I'm looking at doing is handling
> > a mailto: link received from a web browser. When someone clicks on a
> > mailto:, it sends the link to whatever the default email reader is.
> > And, somehow (magically!) that program figures out the link that was
> > passed, and hence the email address being sent to.
>
> It comes in a GURL Apple event. See <http://www.scripting.com/midas/geturl.html>
>

That doesn't seem to work. I tried setting the suite and eventid to
'GURL' and 'FURL', in the various combinations, and had no success.
GURL and/or FURL as barewords give an error at compile time, NSStrings
bitch about casting, single quotes work. So it doesn't seem right to
me.

-Jim........