Thanks for getting back to me. Here is some info about the plist. I had to cut the app gui-calls as the message was too big. It feels like I am missing something obvious...bob I have been running a cocoa-app with a simple gui two different ways. 1. Run from a script file at the cmd-line. This runs fine. I check various fields by tailing the system.log. The alert panels appear as I expect. 2. Run by the same script file, which is run by launchd. The app is recognized and starts up. I can see the same fields in the tailed system log. The app run ok until it hangs in the call to [oAlert runModal]; I also try to run the app directly from launchd. I get the same effect as in #2 above. Here is the launchd plist. It is located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. I cd here to issue all the launchctl calls. I have tried various permutations, such as the full path in the Program-key value. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http:// www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Disabled</key> <true/> <key>Label</key> <string>net.aquaconnect.acnotify</string> <key>OnDemand</key> <true/> <key>Program</key> <string>ACNotify</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/Users/bob/AppSupport/ACNotify.app/Contents/ MacOS/ACNotify</string> <string>-d</string> <string>4</string> <string>-p</string> <string>/Users/bob/LaunchScriptTest</string> </array> <key>QueueDirectories</key> <array> <string>/Users/bob/LaunchScriptTest</string> </array> <key>ServiceDescription</key> <string>Aquaconnect Alert Notification Manager</string> <key>WorkingDirectory</key> <string>/Users/bob/AppSupport/ACNotify.app/Contents/MacOS</ string> </dict> </plist> On Dec 14, 2007, at 3:30 PM, James Bucanek wrote:
bobkells@steelcape.com <mailto:bobkells@steelcape.com> wrote (Friday, December 14, 2007 3:13 PM -0800):
Not having any luck running a LaunchAgent containing a gui from launchd. Is this simply not possible?
I'm running both GUI and non-GUI agents (~/Library/LaunchAgents) using launchd.
Try telling us what your .plist contains and describe the problems your having.
-- James Bucanek