OSX Opening an App with a document

[Paul Dupuis]

Does anyone have any good code for this?

On 10/5/2016 5:56 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> Okay list gurus:
>
> What is the best practice method for determine whether a Standalone app
> under OSX was opened with a document (by drag and drop or double-click)?
>
> I have an appleevent handler that get any doc dropped on the app while
> it is running. I was also checking this after startup (and by startup I
> mean the initial message set of startup, preopenstack, openstack, etc,
> etc. opencard). I needed to change the startup sequence a bit and now
> the code I was using is essentially on opencard. Hwoever, checking the
> pendingMessages shows the standalone has not yet received the appleevent
> message yet.
>
> This is SOO much simpler under Windows where the global $1 has any file
> that was launched at startup - AT startup!
>
> Does anyone have any good on-startup code to determine if an OSX app was
> launched with a doc?
>
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