Passing command line arguments to a carbon app

[Uli Kusterer]

Am 17.04.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Lothar Scholz:
> No Xcode here. I'm using my own Eiffel compiler from command line.
> Only IB to create NIB's.

  Is your app bundled, or not? AFAIK the GUI issues were corrected  
for 10.3 or 10.4, but if your app isn't in a bundle or does some  
other things in a nonstandard way, you might still get problems that  
look similar.

> I need a test control program (a ruby ones) on the command line that
> runs executables with different input values. My next try was to
> store them in a file relative to the current directory, but the
> current directory of a carbon app is always '/'.

  Not always. Just when launched by the Finder. Some applications  
change their current directory themselves, Xcode sets it to the  
Release or Debug folders... in short, you can't rely on the current  
directory. Instead, put support files in your bundle's "Resources"  
folder and get its URL based on your application's path, or better  
via CFBundle or NSBundle.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de