Register as Login Item with Cocoa?

Question

Google gave me: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/LoginItemsAE/index.html

And I figured there must be a better way than using AppleScript Events.

So I do

Answer 1

I do this in an app I'm writing:

Check out UKLoginItemRegistry for an easy way to do this pragmatically. Afaik, there is no way in Tiger to do this without Apple Events; in Leopard there's a better way, but if you use UKLoginItemRegistry it really is no problem. Here's the complete code for implementing an "Open at Logon" menu item

+ (bool)isAppSetToRunAtLogon {
  int ret = [UKLoginItemRegistry indexForLoginItemWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
  NSLog(@"login item index = %i", ret);
  return (ret >= 0);
}

- (IBAction)toggleOpenAtLogon:(id)sender {
  if ([PopupController isAppSetToRunAtLogon]) {
    [UKLoginItemRegistry removeLoginItemWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
  } else {
    [UKLoginItemRegistry addLoginItemWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] hideIt: NO];
  }
}