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    <p>I've written an application that can be invoked as a service (by right-clicking a file in Finder and selecting to open it with my application), but there are a couple of unwanted side-effects when doing this.</p> <p>Example of service target method:</p> <pre><code>- (void)doSomething:(NSPasteboard *)pboard userData:(NSString *)userData error:(NSString **)error { NSArray *files = [pboard propertyListForType:NSFilenamesPboardType]; NSLog(@"Selected file(s): %@", files); [self.anotherWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:self]; } </code></pre> <p><strike>1) When the application is launched this way (even if already open in debug mode), I seem unable to access other windows/controls from the doSomething function. The above attempt to show "anotherWindow", for example, produces no errors, but doesn't "do" anything. According to the stack trace, when inspected from -doSomething, all gui components have values 0x0000000000000000 - yet the application is displayed and fully functional. It's only from -doSomething that I cannot reach them. "self" also has a different value when inspected from -doSomething versus -applicationDidFinishLaunching. I'm not sure how or why -doSomething is acquiring a different self/AppDelegate with uninitialized components.</strike> Seemingly fixed by [NSApp setServicesProvider:self];</p> <p>2) I am not clear on how the system decides which copy of the application to launch when the service is invoked, but it usually doesn't pick the one I want. I have a copy in /Debug, a copy in /Release, a copy on my desktop... and if I delete one, it opens the file with another one instead (some sort of fallback-chain?). How do I configure the service (in code or thru .plist) to open a specific version/location of this app? But this is a dev machine. If I release a distributable which installs to /Applications, do I ever really need to worry about this?</p>
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    1. COI added NSAlerts to -doSomething and to -applicationDidFinishLaunching. The one in -applicationDidFinishLaunching gets fired first, and I see the main application window (self.mainWindow). Then the one in -doSomething pops up, and prints that self.mainWindow is (null). Despite the fact that I can see and interact with it. Is -doSomething not running within the same instance?
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