Run in dock/background via checkbox

[ultitech]

Hey guys,
so i just started really programming with AppleScriptObjC on Sunday and I read this awesome tutorial on here and a lot of other stuff on the internet but now i got stuck on something.
I the user to choose in the preferences of my programm if they want to run it in the background with a menu bar icon or also with a dock icon with a checkbox. So I already know you can pre-define it with lsuielement in the plist file.
What I have for now is when the user puts the checkmark not to run it in the background

	ProcessSerialNumber psn = { 0, kCurrentProcess };
	// display dock icon
	TransformProcessType(&psn, kProcessTransformToForegroundApplication);

But what I also want is that its changes the lsuielement in the plist file. I found some code but none of them is working
Thanks in advance
CodeWarrior

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[EricL]

use a shell script to manually change it

in your app’s plist in xcode add the child
LSUIElement | uncheck the checkbox

do shell script "defaults write name.app.plist LSUIElement true

[ultitech]

This is probably really stupid now but what do I put for the name?
My project name is MenuBar and my plist file name is MenuBar-Info.plist

[EricL]

I think by default it would be com.MenuBar.plist

ps. No question is stupid when your learning a new language

[ultitech]

Hey thanks
sadly its still not workin but what I’m trying to do is in here: http://www.jonn8.com/html/MenuApp.html just in AppleScriptObjC, there is also a AppleScriptObjC of this app: http://www.jonn8.com/html/MenuApp_ASOC.html but it doesnt support the change on the go without changing the value in the plist.
What I have right now is, the app is running in background as default so in the plist LUIElement is on 1 and i want to make it run in the dock on the next start if a checkbox is checked because I know you can’t change while its running my for that is now:

do shell script "defaults write com.MenuBar.plist LSUIElement 0"

which is running as soon as I click a button (I wanted to start easy, as soon as it works I will replace it with a checkbox)
Thanks for your help again!

[elspub]

ultitech,

Here’s a handler that works for me. Note the two properties at the top. The handler toggles your App’s LSUIelement, repairs any permissions issues that may have happened in toggling it, and then kills your app and relaunches it to effect those changes.

property myAppName: “YOURAPP’SNAME”
property LSelement : 1 --1 hides your app’s dock icon, 0 shows it

my dToggle_(me) – calls the handler below

on dToggle_(sender)
tell current application’s class “NSBundle”
tell its mainBundle()
set bPath to bundlePath() as string
end tell
end tell
set dockShow to "defaults write " & bPath & "/Contents/Info LSUIElement " & LSelement
set dPerms to "chmod 666 " & bPath & “/Contents/Info.plist”
do shell script dockShow
do shell script dPerms
try
set pid to my getPID(myAppName)
–display dialog pid
set killopen to "kill -9 " & pid & "

	 open " & bPath
		do shell script killopen
	end try
	return null
end dToggle_

on getPID(intxt)
set shQ to intxt as string
set t to do shell script "ps -axm | grep -i " & shQ
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to " "
set pidList to every text item of t
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to “”
set pid to “”
repeat with i from 1 to count of pidList
set pid to item i of pidList
if pid is not “” then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return pid
end getPID