Re: Find value of GNUSTEP_XXX_APPS

[Fred Kiefer]

Calling NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSApplicationDirectory, 
NSSystemDomainMask, YES) should do the trick.


On 19.02.2012 17:44, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for Zipper, I was looking for an easy way to find out GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS. I 
> know I can use
> gnustep-config  --variable=GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS
> on the command line to find that out.
> Programmatically, I did the same, running it via NSTask, see the snippet at the 
> end.
> I wonder whether there is an easier way to get the value of such a variable?
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>          NSString *gnustepSystemApps;
>          NSTask *task;
>          NSPipe *pipe;
>          NSFileHandle *readHandle;
>
>
>          pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
>          readHandle = [pipe fileHandleForReading];
>
>          task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
>          [task setLaunchPath:@"gnustep-config"];
>          [task setArguments:[NSArray 
> arrayWithObject:@"--variable=GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_APPS"]];
>          [task setStandardOutput:pipe];
>          [task launch];
>          gnustepSystemApps = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:[readHandle 
> availableData]
>                                  encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease];
>          [task waitUntilExit];
>          ...
>
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