I’m putting together a desktop application in TideSDK and am having some trouble finding the parameters passed to the application via a custom launch URL.
The application launches when the appropriate protocol is invoked (call it aaa://), but I haven’t been able to figure out how to grab the URL string. I read a couple of threads that suggested I could get the string with the Ti.API.application.getArguments() call, but it returns something odd (see below).
// launch application with aaa://some_args_here
var args = Ti.API.application.getArguments();
// returns (StaticBoundList) [ /path/to/app, "-psn_0_721072", ]
I’m not completely surprised that this doesn’t seem to work, as the API documentation says the getArguments method returns a list of command line arguments.
Any insight as to how to access the launch URL would be appreciated!
It doesn’t appear that there’s currently an “official” way to do this, so I came up with my own solution that seems to work pretty well (though currently its only implemented for OSX).
Searching through the TideSDK source, I found the place where the native application delegate is created. I added a URL launch handler in the app delegate, which stores the launch URL in a new app delegate member, and connected it to the API with a binding in Ti.UI.
If anybody else is interested in this functionality, or have insights as to how to accomplish this task for Windows, please get in touch!