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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Can an App launch itself?
Message-ID: <9562@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 90 01:33:13 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon School of Comp. Sci.
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If you want the Workspace Manager to "know about" your application, you should
use the open command in your string to system().  For example,
    system("open /NextApps/Terminal")
as opposed to
    system("/NextApps/Terminal")

If you want a cool tour of the AppKit, you could also create a Speaker and
connect it to the Workspace Manager and then use the launchProgram:ok: 
method.  You should look at the Speaker class doc.  There is example code 
on how to connect a Speaker to an application.  The trick to get a Speaker 
connected to the Workspace is to know what to pass to the NXPortFromName() 
call.  So far, NXPortFromName(getenv("Workspace"), NULL) has worked for me.







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