Just wondering how I can make my app open automatically at login, but make this be able to be toggled on and off using a check box in the preferences window.
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Just wondering how I can make my app open automatically at login, but make this be able to be toggled on and off using a check box in the preferences window.
There is a decent description of what to do at CocoaDev.
Basically, you’ll want to use the API in LaunchServices/LSSharedFileList.h if you can target Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Before 10.5 there was no clean API, so you have to manually manipulate the login items (Sample code at the Developer Connectiong).
Here’s the sample code(dead) for Leopard I mentioned in the comments. Found via this blog post. The code you need to enable or disable startup at login is in Controller.m.